Re^3: Problems Opening file with Perl where path has UTF8 (d'oh!)

Update: The striken text is only true for the system call CreateFileW, but not for Win32API::File's verion of CreateFileW.

~~CreateFileW returns INVALID_FILE_HANDLE (-1) on error, not false.~~

use constant INVALID_FILE_HANDLE => -1;

my $hFile= CreateFileW(
    $wPath,
    GENERIC_READ()|GENERIC_WRITE(),
    FILE_SHARE_READ()|FILE_SHARE_WRITE(), [],
    OPEN_EXISTING(), 0, [] );

INVALID_FILE_HANDLE != $hFile
    or  die "Can't open: $^E\n";
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Re^4: Problems Opening file with Perl where path has UTF8 (error) by tye (Sage) on Nov 25, 2006 at 08:18 UTC
Did you try this? Because the XS code and the documentation for Win32API::File's CreateFile() shows that a false value is returned on error. - tye	[reply]
Re^5: Problems Opening file with Perl where path has UTF8 (error) by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 25, 2006 at 16:20 UTC
My apologies. My testing had been done with the Kernel32's CreateFileW, not with Win32API::File::CreateFileW.	[reply]