Thanks Mark. I was hoping there was some encoding thing I could do to avoid having to translate paths back and forth, but of course that method can work, and I suppose you'd have to decode an encoded string anyway.
A folder with commas in the name isn't totally implausible. In this case, they were using a date as the folder name to reference the contents. You and I would never do it, but they (understandably) saw a date as a reasonable label. Then there's the hell of slashes. It seems you have to test for a colon on OS X. (Hmm. That last sentence could be read in a number of ways.) Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 7/15/13 4:08 PM, "Mark Wieder" <mwie...@ahsoftware.net> wrote: >Scott- > >Monday, July 15, 2013, 3:12:00 PM, you wrote: > >> I recently worked with a client to trace some non-functioning behavior >>in >> a stack to the use of commas in a folder name where the user placed the >> application and support files. I always use long ids for object >> references, so of course my scripts tripped up where the default >> itemDelimiter (comma) was used. > >Commas in a folder name? WTFclients? > >Long ids have the file path enclosed in quotes, so ideally the comma >there shouldn't be an issue unless you're trying to pick the path >apart. I've had similar situations with commas in property names (I'm >looking at you, IDE) and dealt with it by > >replace comma with "_MAGIC_COMMA_" in tString > >and then done the reverse replacement on the way out. > >-- >-Mark Wieder > mwie...@ahsoftware.net > > >_______________________________________________ >use-livecode mailing list >use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >subscription preferences: >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
