I'm using perl 5.12.4 on windows 7.
I have files which have the word canción in their filenames and I want
to change it to poesía. How can I do it? If I use the following script,
canción will be converted to poesía and not poesía.

#!perl

use utf8;

my $directory = '.';
opendir (MYHANDLE , $directory) || die "Cant open directory :$!\n";
my @files = readdir MYHANDLE;
closedir MYHANDLE;
foreach (@files) {
  my $original = $_;
  s/canción/poesía/;
  rename "$directory\\$original", "$directory\\$_";
}

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The filenames are of the form:

canción de la vida.txt
canción de la naturaleza.txt
canción 和平之歌.txt
...

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Many thanks in advance,

Cesar

In reply to renaming filenames by andalou

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