Hi Monks!

I am struggling with the following piece of code. My need: selecting a directory (possibly with UTF characters) and save a text file. This piece of code creates a folder and put inside it the file. How can I prevent the creation of the folder (this is the part I found on the web)? I just took away the "unless" part of the code, but if doing so, the script is no longer able to write in a folder with UTF characters! What am I missing? Thanks. Cla

use Tk;
use strict;
use warnings;

use Encode qw( encode );
use File::Slurp;
use File::Spec::Functions qw( catfile );
use Win32;
use Win32::API;

use constant ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS => 0xb7;

my $mw = MainWindow->new;
$mw->title('Menu');
my $menubar = $mw->Menu(-type => 'menubar');
$mw->configure(-menu => $menubar);
my $mfile = $menubar->cascade(-label => '~File', -tearoff => 0);
 
$mfile->command(-label => '~Save',
                -command => \&save_file4);                
                              
my $exit = $mw->Button(-text => 'Exit',
                       -command => [$mw => 'destroy']);

$exit->pack;
my $types = [ ['HTML files', '.txt'],
              ['All Files',   '*'],];
MainLoop;
sub save_file4 {
  my $save = $mw->getSaveFile(-filetypes => $types, 
                             -initialfile => 'test',
                             -defaultextension => '.txt');

unless ( Win32::CreateDirectory($save) ) {
    my $err = $^E;
    if ( $err == ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS ) {
        warn "Directory exists, no problem\n";
    }
    else {
        die Win32::FormatMessage($^E);
    }
}

my $ansi_path = Win32::GetANSIPathName($save);
warn "$ansi_path\n";

my $file = catfile($ansi_path, 'test.txt');
  open(OUT,">$file") or die $!;
  print OUT $file;
  close OUT;  
}

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