André,
I'm not sure why this will not work to create the file name:
get "Joe PATIENT - bio checkup - 09" & numToChar(240) & "2013.pdf"
I think I might not be understanding the situation. Are these all files on a
network file server or a portable storage? They look one way (with colons) on
a Mac (with colons) and look another way on Windows (with the dot)?
I also may have made an error in character encoding calculation. I'll double
check that.
Dar
On Jul 22, 2013, at 6:50 AM, André Bisseret wrote:
> 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.
> -------
> 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
> -----
> 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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