f2 is tx&test01.xlsx.  The file that's there is tx&test02.xlsx.

Henry Rich

On 8/20/2012 6:18 PM, Bill Harris wrote:
       fexist dir,f1
1
       f1
txtest01.xlsx
       fexist dir,f2
0
       f2
tx&test01.xlsx
       fdir dir,'*.xlsx'
┌──────────────────┬──────────────────┬──────┬───┬──────┐
│tx&test02.xlsx    │2012 8 20 10 11 57│7978  │rw-│-----a│
├──────────────────┼──────────────────┼──────┼───┼──────┤
│txtest01.xlsx     │2012 8 20 10 7 39 │7977  │rw-│-----a│
├──────────────────┼──────────────────┼──────┼───┼──────┤
    9!:14''
j602/2008-03-03/16:45

Is there a way to work with "&" in file names in J?  f2 is a copy of
f1, and Excel is happy with both files.

Interestingly,

    dir,f1
b:/TopLevelDirectory/_Word1 & Word2/Bill
Harris/j602-user/projects/taraxmltest/txtest01.xlsx


IOW, the directory has an "&", and that's okay.  It's just when it's
in the file name that it fails.  (I did try putting spaces around the
"&" in the file name, but it didn't help.)

My real goal is to read another file that has an "&" in the file name
using taraxml, but I figure the same mechanism gives fexist and
readxlxsheets difficulty.

Bill
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