NB. What you could do is use
a=.1 dir 'foldername'
NB, and/or
b=.0 dir 'foldername'
NB. use stringreplace to get a name without the chars you do not want in the
name like:
require'strings'
('ö';'o')stringreplace 'Höhepunkte'
Hohepunkte
NB. do that over all the names in the dir results and use ucp for the shell
operation
NB. something like
require 'task misc'
rename_files=: 3 : 0
c=. ('ö';'o')stringreplace y
shell ucp 'ren ',y,' ',c
)
rename_files each a
2007/4/20, Devon McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Members of the forum -
maybe someone can give me some direction on a problem I'm having with
non-English (two-byte)
characters in file names. When I tried to back up music files onto a DVD,
I
discovered that the DVD
format 1) restricts names to be no longer than 106
characters, and 2) allows only a restricted character
set.
So, if I have a file called "Giusepe Verdi - Höhepunkte aus Rigoletto -
07.mp3" - where the second letter
of "Höhepunkte" is "o diaeresis" (two little dots over the letter "o") and
I
want to rename it to remove the
character I can't write to my DVD. I have a rename routine that works for
files with a few single-byte
disallowed characters (like ";:?<>" et al.).
However, it works by creating a batch file full of rename commands, e.g.
lines like 'ren "Giusepe Verdi -
Höhepunkte aus Rigoletto - 07.mp3" "Giusepe Verdi - Hhepunkte aus
Rigoletto
- 07.mp3"',
but these lines get messed up when they are written to the file. I
probably
can't convey exactly
how "Höhepunkte" gets mangled as I expect the characters will get messed
up
in this e-mail but the
second letter shows up as a pair of (odd) letters in the batch file.
I found a file rename API in "sflfile.ijs" but this fares no better: it
returns an error code, e.g.
file_rename_jsfl_ 'Giusepe Verdi - Höhepunkte aus Rigoletto -
07.mp3';'Giusepe
Verdi - Hhepunkte aus Rigoletto - 07.mp3'
+--+--------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|_1|Giusepe Verdi - Höhepunkte aus Rigoletto - 07.mp3|Giusepe Verdi -
Hhepunkte aus Rigoletto - 07.mp3|
+--+--------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
Thanks for any ideas you have...
--
Devon McCormick, CFA
^me^ at acm.
org is my
preferred e-mail
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