Hi,
I wrote this function to return paths as backslashes
fn setBackslashes _STRING = (
arr = #()
for i=1 to _STRING.count do (
if _STRING[i] == "/" then (
append arr "\\"
) else (
append arr _STRING[i]
)
)
newString = ""
for j=1 to arr.count do (
newString += arr[j]
)
newString
)
But it seems to be failing while I use this to shellLaunch() network paths.
At first thought that this is an issue with shellLaunch itself, but now Im not sure.
So this is not working:
shellLaunch "explorer" (setBackslashes SomeNetworkPath)
But once I copy manually the string generated by
setBackslashes SomeNetworkPath
and then
shellLaunch "explorer" JustCopiedString
it works fine. The same happens here:
projROOT_path = "//SomeNetworkComputer"
p_local = setBackslashes projROOT_path
p_network = "\\" + (setBackslashes projROOT_path)
doesFileExist p_local
-- true
doesFileExist p_network
-- false
but once I copy the p_network manually and run
doesFileExist p_network_JustCopiedManually
-- true
It works great.
This completely has no sense. Because both strings are identically, but when run
p_network_JustCopiedManually == p_network
-- false
So I guess the issue is my weird function setBackslashes()?
DenisT method is of course the better one.
The problem with your function is one of these two ones:
- You should put 4 backslashs “\\” as each time you evaluate the string, the “” is taken as an escape character.
- Your network name starts by an ‘escapable’ character (n, r, t…) so the backslash works as the escape for this characters and so the string changes when it’s evaluated.
By the way, in few days your function may be:
newString = (_From _STRING).Replace#(“/”,”\”)
I hope by the end of this week i’ll publish my ‘maxLINQ’ script that can make these things quite easier.
if you want just change slashes to backslashes in the string (path) use pathConfig.resolvePathSymbols
Thank you so much. I thought that there may be something like that, but max help is such a mess…