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opening a folder with an / in the name


Barry Farrimond
February 21, 2013 | 11:19 pm

Hi everyone, I have adapted a patch from this post http://cycling74.com/forums/topic.php?id=10129 I would like to load up a file that has a "/" in the title. When I try to do this nothing loads. I know why this is happening but I can’t work out a fix, any help would be appreciated. To replicate this you will need to make a file on your system with an "/" in it, something like "test/test" and with some audio files in it. Here’s the patch:

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Barry Farrimond
February 21, 2013 | 11:20 pm

p.s I know that I can change the name of the folder, removing the "/" to make this work, but I am building a system that can’t assume that the user will know they need to do that! :)


meeble
February 22, 2013 | 5:39 am

have you tried escaping the forward slash with a backwards slash? Either way, it’s always a bad idea to have a slash in a file or folder name.


Roman Thilenius
February 22, 2013 | 8:27 am

this isnt your question, but i i would try to avoid using folder names on mac which wouldnt work on windows. :)


Barry Farrimond
February 22, 2013 | 9:14 am

thanks for the replies.

meeble, not sure how I can "escape the forward slash with a backwards slash?" Re the ill-advised naming, I know, but I’m designing a patch to be used by anyone, and it needs to be bullet proof! :)
roman, I am totally ignorant when it comes to windows, will windows not allow you to name folders with a "/"? If so that would be good :)


jvkr
February 22, 2013 | 11:13 am

To my understanding max cannot deal with slashes in the names of either files or folders at all, never. I suppose you have to include a line about this in the manual. The conformpath object shows the different styles.


meeble
February 22, 2013 | 8:00 pm

I hadn’t tried it either, Barry. :


Barry Farrimond
February 22, 2013 | 8:46 pm

yeah, i guess I don’t want to get hung up about it, your probably right jvkr, a line in manual will have to do. Thanks for the help guys!


Barry Farrimond
February 22, 2013 | 8:47 pm


meeble
February 22, 2013 | 10:01 pm

Windows does not allow any kind of slash in a folder or file name.


Peter Castine
February 23, 2013 | 6:42 am

Windows may impose restrictions on use of forward slashes and backslashes, but Mac OS does no such thing.

If you’re writing patches for you own use, you can enforce your own discipline. If you’re writing patches for other people to use, you can’t.

Advice along the lines of "don’t use < > in file path names" is of extremely limited value.


LSka
February 23, 2013 | 8:48 am

You can use regexp to look up for "forbidden" characters:

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