Re: Illegal characters in windows filenames?

besides Win32::.*? functions there is also Win32API::File that looks quite confusing to me. It says to be using 'low level' functions so maybe also a way to get those short file names (like "PROGRA~1" for "Program Files") that should be useful for your task.

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Re: Re: Illegal characters in windows filenames? by HamNRye (Monk) on Feb 11, 2004 at 20:22 UTC
Thanks for the pointers monks... I'll report back here with any findings. Win32::File is for getting file attributes.... Compressed, hidden, read-only, etc... http://www.xav.com/perl/site/lib/Win32/File.html The other thought is just to use system commands to handle the globbing. Basically, if both file and directory tests fail, we do a system("mv $path$item $path$fixed_item_name") where I've made the fixed item name just not include the "?". Then I can at least find and manipulate the file.	[reply]

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Re: Re: Illegal characters in windows filenames?
by HamNRye (Monk) on Feb 11, 2004 at 20:22 UTC

Thanks for the pointers monks... I'll report back here with any findings.

Win32::File is for getting file attributes.... Compressed, hidden, read-only, etc... http://www.xav.com/perl/site/lib/Win32/File.html

The other thought is just to use system commands to handle the globbing. Basically, if both file and directory tests fail, we do a system("mv $path$item $path$fixed_item_name") where I've made the fixed item name just not include the "?". Then I can at least find and manipulate the file.

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