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in thread renaming filenames

I'm using perl 5.12.4 on windows 7.
Your code doesn't work in windows.

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Re^4: renaming filenames
by remiah (Hermit) on Aug 17, 2012 at 15:29 UTC
    Some questions.

    1. Active Perl or Strawberry Perl ?

    2. What shows your $_ in your program ? With my XP, it shows 8.3 style file names(For example, "Program Files"=> Progra~1). 

    foreach (@files) {
  print "$_\n";
  my $original = $_;
  s/canción/poesía/;
  rename "$directory\\$original", "$directory\\$_";
}

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    What would $_ with Windows 7?.

    3. When you install Win32::Unicode,Win32::Unicode::Dir, Does this work ? 

    use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8;

use Win32::Unicode;
use Win32::Unicode::Dir;

my $wdir = Win32::Unicode::Dir->new;
$wdir->open('./');

while ( my $file=$wdir->fetch ) {
    next if( $file !~ /^canción/ );
    my $file_new=$file;
    $file_new =~ s/canción/poesía/;

    printW "$file ==> $file_new\n";
    #moveW($file, $file_new) or die $!;
}
$wdir->close;

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    I tried with ActivePerl. As "andalou" says, I also met the same error when calling moveW. It seems lacking XS's function which is calling Win32API. I guess Strawberry Perl works ... fine?

    Update:
    I understand OP="andalou" now. If you are using Active Perl, 

    ppm install "http://sourceforge.jp/frs/g_redir.php?m=jaist&f=%2Fassp%2
+FASSP+V2+multithreading%2Fpackages%2FWin32-Unicode.ppd"

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    will remove your Win32::Unicode error messages. </code>

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      Thanks remiah. How did you find the workaround for installing Win32::Unicode using ActivePerl?
      Is it better to uninstall ActivePerl and install Strawberry perl?

      Regards
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        I googled with Win32::Unicode.ppd and found it. I always do this when my ppm-shell find no suitable package.

        But I am just tired of searching package for Active Perl...

        I can't uninstall Active Perl, because there is some working script. I would like to migrate gradually.

        regards
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Re^4: renaming filenames
by pvaldes (Chaplain) on Aug 17, 2012 at 14:15 UTC

    This shouldn't be a problem for you, use a linux live-cd...

    If I have a file called canción, without any extension, and I want to rename it to poesía, without extension, it doesn't do it...

    It only works if the filename has at least 8 characters including point and extension. Moreover, if the $to filename, has equal or more number of characters than the $from filename and this has at least 10 characters, strange characters appear on the $to filename.

    Windows related problems I bet... avoid yourself a lot of trouble and try linux for this specific task

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