file copy issue

[Deye]

  i have a problem with a file with a special character in name

 

  for instance

 

 "C:▶ watch - YouTube.url"

  

I have a problem copying this file alone (to a new location) with filecopy or other  command copy tools 

even tried doing that with FileGetShortName

 

someone here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3762249/how-can-i-copy-files-with-special-characters-in-their-names-with-perls-fileco

posted a solution for doing this in windows saying it needs  Win32::GetANSIPathName 

but i wouldn't know now how to implement this (Edit perhaps not relevant)

 

another small problem is when saving it from (lets say) array to text

it is saved as

  "C:? watch  - YouTube.url"

 

but is not much of a problem if I knew how can this file be controlled first

 

thanks for any ideas or solutions

Edited February 16, 2015 by Deye

[JohnOne]

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[Deye]

I'll put this on hold for now 

as when I try with a simple code it looks ok

but not with my bigger script

I need to check and see whats going on first

thanks

[iamtheky]

if you read the file names to an array, the special character looks fine in the array.  Then if you perform filecopy commands using that character, it is once again fine.  In the test below I had 2 files in the script directory, one of them this script, the other named "▶ watch - YouTube.url", the below script absolutley made a copy and the special character was not an issue.

#include<file.au3>
#include<array.au3>


$fArray = _FileListToArray(@ScriptDir)

_ArrayDisplay($fArray)

FileCopy($fArray[2] , stringleft($fArray[2] , 1) & "_Copy_" & stringmid($fArray[2] , 2))

If you want it output to a text file, you will have to select a format that accepts that character code.