Thank you for the Traverse sub.

Frustratingly this sub(), when traversing my file tree, works fine, while my own humongous program doesn't and chokes on any filename that contains "non-ascii" characters, and I cannot as yet find what I am doing different.

Except that I am doing quite a bit of concatenation of strings and storage in intermediate variables, and I suppose that somewhere perl's smart handling of automatic internal string conversion to utf8-when-needed is biting me.

My real program scans several file trees, remembers in each the oldest file (storing the path in a table), then sorts the table on some formula, and passes the "best" path to another portion of the program for processing. It is in that other part of the program, when trying to use the path to open the file, that the problem occurs.
What I imagine is that somewhere along the line, what was initially read as a "bytes" entry, becomes an internal "utf8" string, and then open() or stat() do not recognise that filename anymore. Does that make sense ?

In reply to Re^2: directories and charsets by soliplaya
in thread directories and charsets by soliplaya

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