Re: convert windows file names

[James Miller]

I tried your perl script and it works really well, Flemming. Thanks for 
bringing it to my attention. I see it works for all files in a given 
directory--exactly what I need. Now, in place of something like

Patrick\ Cohen\ \&\ Mosaiques\ Quartet\ -\ Quintet\ For\ Piano\ \&\ Strings\ 
In\ D\ Major\,\ Op.565\,\ G411\ -.\ Andante\ Come\ Prima.mp3
I get
Patrick_Cohen__and__Mosaiques_Quartet_-_Quintet_For_Piano__and__Strings_In_D_Major._Op.56��5._G411_-��._Andante_Come_Prima.mp3
--a big step in the right direction. But I'm still getting some wierd 
characters in there--�� and ��. Are these unicode or something? Anyway, I 
can't reproduce these at the command line. Is there any way your script 
might be made to catch and replace symbols like these as well (I mean, for 
someone who knows absolutely nothing about Perl, and precious little about 
scripting in general)? I have no idea what information these symbols are 
supposed to be representing. It's probably so inconsequential I don't even 
need it, so replacing it with virtually any other symbol should suffice. 
I'd say I've got at least 20 files with such symbols, and more are on the 
way.

Thanks, James