So I thought I’d put in a stub to see if the file was in an unsaved state. Here is my PERL code (not that such a check has to be in PERL. I thought I’d show what I was trying to do):

my $c;
while ($c = <C>)
{
  if ($c =~ /flip.txt/)
  {
    if ($c =~ /backupFilePath=\"[^\"]/i)
    {
	`$output`;
    Win32::MsgBox("Save wfl.txt before copying over", 0, "Less annoying than overwriting");
    }
    last;
  }
}
close(C);

Here I’m just checking the session.xml file and seeing if the flip.txt entry has a non-empty backupFilePath. And the code isn’t perfect, but it is a good first step. It works pretty well, unless I run the script and edit the file and quickly run the script again. Then, session.xml hasn’t updated soon enough.

Is there a better way to check for if a file has been modified in Notepad++? This isn’t a huge deal for me, since 95% of the time it’ll work, and when it doesn’t, I can just re-delete the lines I got rid of. Still, I’d like to be more precise.

Thanks!

(By the way, if you’re curious about the test case, my file wfl.pl takes in an argument, reads a complete list of English words, and then alphabetically writes out all words starting or ending with the argument-word, with a special annotation if (compound word without argument word) is a word itself. So sometimes I get a few ideas for words based on what my latest try gives me, and I can have binges of saving and deleting text.)