NB. forgot to add that the utility dir is required
require'dir'
NB. While at changing filenames I recommend renaming spaces away too like:
(' ';'_')stringreplace 'file name with spaces'
file_name_with_spaces
2007/4/21, Björn Helgason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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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