Hi all. So I was writing my script and behaves wonderfully. But then I install it and let it do its thing and it gets caught up on an apostrophe. I won't explain the code because I have it below. But basically if I run this code on a file named with an apostrophe it gets hung up every time when I compute the md5 sum.

And yes I've already tried renaming the file but it's produced automatically from iWeb. I went into iWeb and got rid of all apostrophes, but it's still showing up in the filename. I'm running OS X by the way and by the end of my code the file with the apostrophe should end up on a remote server (the server is linux based).

Anyways I think it'd be nice to know how to handle this in perl... So here's the code (minimal example given)- 

#!/usr/bin/env perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;

use File::Find;
use Digest::MD5::File qw(file_md5_hex);

my $local_dir = $ARGV[0];
my %localData;

 finddepth ( \&wanted, $local_dir);
  sub wanted
  {
    if (-f $_)
    {
        my $fileName = $File::Find::name;
        unless ( $fileName =~ m{.*~\..*|\.DS_Store|\.svn|CVS} )
        {
            $fileName =~ s{$local_dir(.+)}{\.$1};
            $localData{$fileName} = file_md5_hex($File::Find::name);
        }
    }
  }

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