Your problem might be that for assigning string values in javascript and its ilk, the \ is used as an escape character for special codes such as \t (tab), \n (newline), etc. To get the literal character \ rather than having the parser looking for something special in the following character, you have to double it, as in \\.
At 1649 +0100 09/03/2004, Julian Weaver wrote: >... >When sending windows filepaths e.g. "C:\somedirectory\somefile.txt" from >flash to director the paramters lose the character after the delimiter. > >e.g. > >"applications\fe\fe32.exe" > >instead of > >"applications\pfe\pfe32.exe" > > >What should the \ be replaced in flash with to get the full string or >should I use another delimiter and replace them in director? >... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]