Bonjour,
Jacque, Dar and Peter, thank you much for your attention to my problem.
Since your posts I made a number of trials during the weekend, following your
suggestions but with no success.
Reminder : the names of the files I am trying to launch from script have the
following format :
Joe PATIENT - bio checkup - 09/2013.pdf
On Mac the slash is replace automatically by colon (:) (don't know why!)
Anyway, all is working well
I can open a file by double-clicking on it in the folder
And, I can launch it by script (using its filename). No problem.
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On Windows, the : (colon) is replaced with what seems to be a character ( a
kind of dot. (or small bullet point?) with a sort of white space before it and
a white space after. But, these are not "space" character (one can't delete
them; on can only select the all
- Double-clicking on a document opens it (good)
- But to launch a document from a script I need to replace : (colon) with this
dot in the filename of the document.
I can't!!!
- When I copy this "dot" and paste it in the script editor, it is immediately
replaced with "?"
and replacing colon by ? does not work
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I tried pasting it in the message box: there, it is immediately replace with "ð
:(quote followed by ð
trying to replace colon :
- I can't use "ð (I suppose it's because they are 2 characters)
- trying only ð does not work
- In the message box of the PC I tried to get the number of this (kind of) dot
put CharToNum('') and pasting a copy of the "dot" between the 2 quotes as
suggested by Jacque
the dot is immediately replaced by "ð
and I get the error: error: Script: missing " after literal
the ASCII number of " is 34 and those of ð is 240
so I tried put numToChar(34) & numToChar(240) into tVar
replace ":" by tVar in tDocName > does not work
I don't know what I could do next?
Dar, there are several thousands files with such names ; I can't imagine the
only solution be to change ( manually) all these names!
I am using livecode (rev) since 2006; it is the first time I am blocked that
much
Any other idea?
Thanks a lot in advance for any help
Best regards
André
Le 19 juil. 2013 à 17:24, J. Landman Gay a écrit :
> "André Bisseret" <andre.bisse...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>> So I tried
>> put quote & numToChar(240) into tVar
>> replace ":" with tVar in tDocName > again no success
>>
>> When I paste the mysterious char directly in the script it is
>> immediately replaced by "?"
>
> In the message box, do this :
>
> put charToNum('')
>
> and paste the copied character between the quotes. That gives you the actual
> number of the character being used. Then in your script use
> numToChar(<whatever>) to do the replacements.
> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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