Escape characters in Request

rudl — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:15:21 GMT

Consider the following

Reading a file in the same dictionary with the pln file:
The first part until i_path is straightforward.
But then for some Reason the string is not:

i_path = "C:\path\to\file.text"
but
i_path = "C:\\path\\to\\file.text

-> BUG 1 ?

Session protokol only reports the first (\\ as \)

So I have to filter out the escape characters. Which I don't know how many
STRLEN also ignores Escape Characters so "\\" is one character

-> BUG2 ?

FOR i = 1 TO i_len_path+20 ! that is stupid but it works

REQUEST ("Name_of_plan", "", r_filename_noext, r_filename, r_fpath) r_fpos = STRSTR(r_fpath,r_filename) relpath = STRSUB(r_fpath,1,r_fpos-1) i_path = relpath+i_fname i_len_path = STRLEN(i_path) i_len_add = 0 i_pathnew = "" FOR i = 1 TO i_len_path+20 ! that is stupid but it works tempchar = STRSUB(i_path,i,1) IF tempchar = "\" THEN IF last = 1 THEN ELSE i_pathnew = i_pathnew +tempchar ENDIF last = 1 ELSE last = 0 i_pathnew = i_pathnew +tempchar ENDIF NEXT i

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runxel — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:56:26 GMT

I have written about this issue in depth here.

Not really a "bug", but it's cumbersome nonetheless.

Re: Escape characters in Request

rudl — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:14:49 GMT

Very! Lets hope nobody ever names a folder like this:
c:\\new folder\notherfolder\\nthatsnotanewline\nbutthisis

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