Script for create a file name with Invalid characters in windows

[bhanu chaitanya abbaraju]

Hi All,

Can any one help me, how can we create a file name with invalid characters
('?','/') in windows. Generally, Windows OS can not allow to create a file
name with invalid characters like '?,/' . But, I heard that we can able to
do with Perl script. If any one know about this please let me know.

Thank you,
A.Bhanuchaitanya.

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Bhanu,

I just tried this script on my Windows XP Virtual machine:

[CODE]
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;

open my $out, '>', 'foo?hello.txt';
print {$out} "Foobar\n";
close($out);

[/CODE]

It failed with an exception. The same script with the '?' in the filename
replaced by '-' worked fine. Why do you need to create such a filename? Is it
for cracking purposes? If you interested in using funny characters in the keys
of your data, then you should use a database of some sort:

http://perl-begin.org/uses/databases/

(Please reply to the list).

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

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