Re: Heads up: commas in file paths

[J. Landman Gay]

Jim Bufalini wrote:

Bob Sneidar wrote:
 

Anyone who works with data for any length of time will quickly come to
this one very practical principle: NO SPECIAL CHARACTERS IN FILE
NAMES! Period! (pun intended)


I agree. I don't even use spaces, so as to avoid having to encapsulate in
quotes. Just upper and lower case. When a delimiter is absolutely necessary,
I use an underscore character instead of a space because I have found an
underscore is a pretty safe special character in all OSs and DBs I have
used.


While I agree with all of this, the problem can occur in your customer's 
file paths when they are using your standalones. There's no way to 
control that, so be aware.


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RE: Heads up: commas in file paths

[Jim Bufalini]

Bob Sneidar wrote:
 
> Anyone who works with data for any length of time will quickly come to
> this one very practical principle: NO SPECIAL CHARACTERS IN FILE
> NAMES! Period! (pun intended)

I agree. I don't even use spaces, so as to avoid having to encapsulate in
quotes. Just upper and lower case. When a delimiter is absolutely necessary,
I use an underscore character instead of a space because I have found an
underscore is a pretty safe special character in all OSs and DBs I have
used.

I note even MS has dropped the use of spaces in system directory names that
were in XP and prior but not in Vista.

Aloha from Hawaii,

Jim Bufalini

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Re: Heads up: commas in file paths

[Bob Sneidar]

Anyone who works with data for any length of time will quickly come to  
this one very practical principle: NO SPECIAL CHARACTERS IN FILE  
NAMES! Period! (pun intended)


Bob Sneidar
IT Manager
Logos Management
Calvary Chapel CM

On Apr 14, 2009, at 10:08 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:


stephen barncard wrote:
THis is a bug? I always thought commas in any file name was a no- 
no, like

ampersands, etc. The OSs allows this?


Yes, OS X allows it and apparently Windows does too because the  
original

support ticket was from an XP user. I suspect most people don't use
commas very much and that's why this didn't come to anyone's attention
till late in the game. But I remember someone on this list reporting
unexplained crashes that no one else could reproduce, so thought I'd
post this just in case.

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Re: Heads up: commas in file paths

[J. Landman Gay]

stephen barncard wrote:

THis is a bug? I always thought commas in any file name was a no-no, like
ampersands, etc. The OSs allows this?


Yes, OS X allows it and apparently Windows does too because the original 
support ticket was from an XP user. I suspect most people don't use 
commas very much and that's why this didn't come to anyone's attention 
till late in the game. But I remember someone on this list reporting 
unexplained crashes that no one else could reproduce, so thought I'd 
post this just in case.


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Re: Heads up: commas in file paths

[stephen barncard]

THis is a bug? I always thought commas in any file name was a no-no, like
ampersands, etc. The OSs allows this?

-
Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
http://barncard.com


2009/4/14 J. Landman Gay 

> RR has just verified an issue, introduced in version 3.5, where commas in
> file paths interfere with scripts and/or the script editor. On Mac OS X,
> attempting to open a script editor in a stack that has commas in its file
> path will result in the spinning pizza of death and requires a force-quit
> (and therefore potential data loss.) On Windows, the script editor may open
> but will ignore any breakpoints set by either the dot method or by inserting
> the work "breakpoint" into the script.
>
> They are working on a fix, but if you are experiencing unexplained hangs,
> crashes, or an inability to use the script editor normally, check for and
> remove any commas in your stack paths.
>
> 
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