Oy vey, how painful.

I can't see why the code wouldn't do what it says on the can. My guess is that somewhere in there, perhaps at /#/ there's a mismatch between your playlist and the test criteria you apply to it, and @playlist ends up with the wrong stuff in it. To find out what's going wrong, I'd take the first half of your code and do 
open(PLAYLIST, "<playlist.m3u");
opendir(FILES, 'd:\my files');
my @playlist = ();

open TEMP ">playlist.txt";

while(<PLAYLIST>) {
    if(not(/#/)) {print TEMP "$_\n"}
    }

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Then examine playlist.txt at your leisure and see whether it is what you'd expect it to be. Of course, before you run this... make sure you don't have a treasured file called playlist.txt that will get overwritten... that would be just too cruelly ironic.

Please do post again and say how you get on and ask any other questions that occur to you. Perl is your friend, really, despite appearances.

§ George Sherston

In reply to Re: it's been awhile . . . by George_Sherston
in thread it's been awhile . . . by ashaman

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