in reply to stat on file name containing single quotes

I don't think the string contains what you think it does. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $fn = q{C:\Music\Ray LaMontagne\2010 - God Willin' & The Creek Don'
+t Rise};
print -d $fn;

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works for me. I'm betting you didn't escape your backslashes in your double quotes. Do you have warnings enabled?

#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

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Re^2: stat on file name containing single quotes
by fishmonger (Chaplain) on Jul 30, 2015 at 21:52 UTC

    You're right. My dumb text editor added the .txt ext and dumb me didn't notice it.

    c:\test>Perl-1.pl
C:\Music\Ray LaMontagne\2010 - God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise.txt
$VAR1 = [
          2,
          0,
          33206,
          1,
          0,
          0,
          2,
          0,
          1438291895,
          1438291895,
          1438291895,
          '',
          ''
        ];

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