There might be some umlauts in some of the path names. Would that trigger the alarm?

No alarm, but you might not be able to open the files without help of GetShortPathName or openW :) although you probably might open "da-MötleyCrüe", it depends

If you make sub ddiagnostic out of what I posted, you can use  ddiagnostic( $path ); to see if this is an issue

This is one of the reasons for the subs subs subs subs. You can write/debug using simple ascii test filenames ... figure out the program logic get it 99% there, then throw in some unicode filenames and only change a few subs

Or maybe even change no subs, maybe :)( Re^3: Trouble with File::Find::Rule (win32 unicode overload file test operators) )

In reply to Re^17: search and replace strings in different files in a directory by Anonymous Monk
in thread search and replace strings in different files in a directory by PitifulProgrammer

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