Filelist illegal characters

using LabVIEW 7.1 I want to list and read several files in a certain directory.
I want to recursively search and read these files starting from a root-directory,
however the directory-path at some point contains illegal characters, probably because the data is originating from Japan.
Now the recursive filelisting is not able to look beyond that part of the directory.
Windows displays these chars as 3 square's, and Labview displays them as 3 question marks, and generates a error.
I could ofcourse manually rename the illegal chars, but since intent to analyse lots of these files, doing a manual rename would be too much work.
Does anyone know a solution for this problem ??
Thanks in advance ,
René

ramekers wrote:
I tried the recursive file-lister of LabVIEW 8.5 (on windows2000) and this gave me the same errors,
not being able to read past these characters.
Now I am trying to locate a "freeware" program to remove these characters recursively from the names,
leaving the rest intact. Couldn't find anything yet ...
René
You could experiment with the command line in Windows. Not sure if the command line will support such file names at all but if it goes bad there, then you are indeed in deep trouble. Try to start a command line and do a dir command in such a directory. Then try to do a rename on such a file. It might work.
I doubt there is a GUI application that does specifically do this task, so you may have to resort to a batch file script doing it on the command line if the above experiment shows you that this is possible at all.
Rolf Kalbermatter
Rolf Kalbermatter
CIT Engineering Netherlands
a division of Test & Measurement Solutions

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