Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
>> Having said that, if you (that's a collective you, I guess) can
>> provide us with a cast-iron prescription to obtain the 8.3 version of
>> the name from its pretty-printing wrapper, then you may all just be in
>> luck. Does Win32 have such a function in its API for example?
>>
>
> Apparently so: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?
>
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> bContent=1. The function is GetShortPathName. Don't know about the
> "cast- iron" part, but since it seems to be in the Kernel32 DLL, my guess
> is it's relatively reliable.
Thanks, Paul. So the first goal is to create a wrapper
std::string const getPortableName(std::string const & input);
On unix it would be
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
// On unix this is just a pass through function.
std::string const getPortableName(std::string const & input)
{
if (input.find(' ') != std::string::npos) {
std::cerr << "Warning: path \""
<< input
<< "\" contains spaces. "
<< "LaTeX will have problems!\n"
}
return input;
}
int main(int argv, char * argc[])
{
for (int i = 1; i < argv; ++i) {
std::cout << getPortableName(argc[i]) << '\n';
}
std::flush(std::cout);
return 0;
}
Could you (or indeed anyone else with access to a compiler environment on a
Win32 box) write and test the equivalent function?
I'd imagine it would be something like
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <windows.h>
std::string const getPortableName(std::string const & input)
{
if (input.empty())
return std::string();
if (input.size() > MAX_PATH) {
std::cerr << "Warning: path \""
<< input
<< "\" contains more than MAX_PATH chars.\n";
return input;
}
char * output = new char [MAX_PATH];
for (size_t i=0; i<MAX_PATH; ++i)
output[i] = '\0';
size_t const size =
GetShortPathName(input.c_str(), output, MAX_PATH);
std::string const result = size ? output : std::string();
delete [] output;
return result;
}
--
Angus
