Okey, I'll give it one more shot, then. First of all I'm on a Windows XP machine and my script will exclusively be used on Windows platforms. I'm using ActivePerl and I'm constructing a GUI where the user shall specify the path to a file. If strange characters are used in the path, my script does not work. Below is a simple example that does not work due to the characters in the path. If I select a path without é and ö it works.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;


my $path = 'C:\Idéer\Första\test.txt';
my @file = ();

open(FILE,$path); 
@file = <FILE>;
close(FILE);

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The error message is:

readline() on closed filehandle FILE at C:\test\testing.pl line 10

Is it possible now to give me some hints on how to solve this?

Thanks in advance!

In reply to Re^6: Handling file path with unusual characters by samuelalfred
in thread Handling file path with unusual characters by samuelalfred

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