At 4:18 PM -0600 1/24/02, J. Landman Gay wrote: >Geoff Canyon wrote: > >> It _is_ slightly more difficult, since you need to watch out for the "/" character >in the legitimate path, which will have been translated to a ":" >> >> You could either escape the ":" which always gives me a headache, or do a >character-by-character switch. I generally go the headache route, but I have no >aspirin handy at the moment... > >I sometimes do it this way: > >replace colon with numToChar(8) in tPath >replace "/" with colon in tPath >replace numToChar(8) with "/" in thePath > >I like using the ascii for "delete" as a placeholder, because it works >fine and there's no way a user has typed it. > >I have some Tylenol if you want it...
You know, that's a good point about not being able to type "delete". I would have: replace ":" with "-:" in tPath replace "/" with "+:" in tPath replace "-:" with "/" in tPath replace "+:" with ":" in tPath regards, Geoff _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
