On 05/31/2018 07:54 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
Many years ago I had a gal who used a character that was legal on a Mac, but
not on a Windows NTFS volume. She would save her files from a Mac to a Windows
file share, and Windows would happily comply, but then she couldn't open her
OIC you wanted to INCLUDE a slash in the filename, not enter a path! Ick. Yeah
good choice to exclude them. Anytime you allow a user to enter a filename
and/or a path you have to check for valid characters.
Many years ago I had a gal who used a character that was legal on a Mac, but
not on a W
Hi Bob,
> Am 29.05.2018 um 19:14 schrieb Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
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> Not sure about Mobile,
but I need to know for mobile!
> but I was under the impression that Livecode handled path conversion
> internally if forward slashes were used. There are also path conversion
> functions. I
Hi Bob,
> Am 29.05.2018 um 19:09 schrieb Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
> :
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> And here I was feeling like a moron for not knowing what LSAH stood for! :-)
for nine whole days? Poor boy! :-D
Looks like other felt the same, at least I did not get any response.
> Bob S
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>> On May 20, 2018,
Not sure about Mobile, but I was under the impression that Livecode handled
path conversion internally if forward slashes were used. There are also path
conversion functions. I usually check the platform, then do some basic checks
for formatting and pop an error if invalid. I also filter for val
And here I was feeling like a moron for not knowing what LSAH stood for! :-)
Bob S
> On May 20, 2018, at 09:29 , Klaus major-k via use-livecode
> wrote:
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> Am 20.05.2018 um 18:25 schrieb Klaus major-k via use-livecode
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>> Hi friends,
>>
>> the subject says it all :-)
>
> well, obvi
Am 20.05.2018 um 18:25 schrieb Klaus major-k via use-livecode
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> Hi friends,
>
> the subject says it all :-)
well, obviously NOT, sorry, tiny typo in the subject, I am talking about the
SLASH! 8-)
> User entered a filename with a SLASH -> ddd/uuu.whatever
> How should this be handled on mo
Hi friends,
the subject says it all :-)
User entered a filename with a SLASH -> ddd/uuu.whatever
How should this be handled on mobile iOS/Android?
Escape with a BACKSLASH? -> ddd\/uuu.whatever
Replace with what?
On the Mac this is obviously replaced with a colon -> ddd:uuu.whatever
At least thi
