Re^2: problems with extended ascii characters in filenames

Thanks for the excellent lesson, graff. It works. I was wondering why you used the syntax

$_ = decode( 'utf8', $_ ) for ( @datafiles );

 #instead of

@files = map { decode( 'utf8', $_  ) } @files;
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Does it matter?

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