Re: How to manage file name containing a date with /

Thanks you very much Mark and Thomas. I was set to finding what character was hidden under this bizarre "dot"! Thanks to you two I am changing my mind and I will rename the files. If the doctor was to be working still for years I would adopt the suggestion from Thomas: changing the names of all

Re: How to manage file name containing a date with /

André I don't know how to make windows recognize the "/" but you are in luck that the Mac can see them. Others might have a better approach but if it were my project I would 'bite the bullet' as it were and build a quick and dirty tool in LC on the Mac and rename/fix all of those file names at

Re: How to manage file name containing a date with /

André- Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 11:26:43 AM, you wrote: > One click on a specific button "create transfert folder" create > the folder that will be dragged on the USB key of the patient My guess on this: in the script of that button, transform the filenames into something less troublesome, proba

Re: How to manage file name containing a date with /

Thanks a lot Thomas for your precise questions; that help me a lot to better explain my problem. That's what I am trying below. Le 22 juil. 2013 à 23:03, Thomas McGrath III a écrit : > Andre, > > You are not answering the proper questions to come up with a solution for > this. Well ,I was try

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Le 22 juil. 2013 à 19:40, J. Landman Gay a écrit : > On 7/22/13 7:50 AM, André Bisseret wrote: >> Since your posts I made a number of trials during the weekend, >> following your suggestions but with no success. > > I'm still not sure why you need to translate the file paths. I've never > neede

Re: How to manage file name containing a date with /

Andre, You are not answering the proper questions to come up with a solution for this. Questions: 1. Where are the files located when using the Mac version of your app? (same computer? different computer?) 2. Where are the filed located when using the Windows version of your app? (same computer?

Re: How to manage file name containing a date with /

Le 22 juil. 2013 à 21:39, J. Landman Gay a écrit : > On 7/22/13 2:32 PM, Dar Scott wrote: >> I'm not trying to fool the OS. It is already fooled the way I >> understand the problem. The scanner created files with "/" in the >> name. > > Hm. That would make my last response moot then. I guess I

Re: How to manage file name containing a date with /

On 7/22/13 2:32 PM, Dar Scott wrote: I'm not trying to fool the OS. It is already fooled the way I understand the problem. The scanner created files with "/" in the name. Hm. That would make my last response moot then. I guess I missed where these odd file names were coming from, but apparen

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I'm not trying to fool the OS. It is already fooled the way I understand the problem. The scanner created files with "/" in the name. On Jul 22, 2013, at 10:32 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Dar- > > Monday, July 22, 2013, 8:05:15 AM, you wrote: > >> That is what I was suggesting, with the fix a

Re: How to manage file name containing a date with /

On 7/22/13 7:50 AM, André Bisseret wrote: Since your posts I made a number of trials during the weekend, following your suggestions but with no success. I'm still not sure why you need to translate the file paths. I've never needed to do that. This always works: answer file "Choose a file:"

Re: How to manage file name containing a date with /

Thanks Dar for your prompt reply Le 22 juil. 2013 à 15:16, Dar Scott a écrit : > André, > > I'm not sure why this will not work to create the file name: > > get "Joe PATIENT - bio checkup - 09" & numToChar(240) & "2013.pdf" > I am doing something similar : put quote & numToChar(240) into tVar

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Sorry again, Dar, I am not speedy enough to answer (am not enough fluent in english ;-) Le 22 juil. 2013 à 17:05, Dar Scott a écrit : > > On Jul 22, 2013, at 8:36 AM, André Bisseret wrote: > >> Thanks Dar for your prompt reply >> >> Le 22 juil. 2013 à 15:16, Dar Scott a écrit : >> >>> André,

Re: How to manage file name containing a date with /

On Jul 22, 2013, at 8:36 AM, André Bisseret wrote: > Thanks Dar for your prompt reply > > Le 22 juil. 2013 à 15:16, Dar Scott a écrit : > >> André, >> >> I'm not sure why this will not work to create the file name: >> >> get "Joe PATIENT - bio checkup - 09" & numToChar(240) & "2013.pdf" >> >

Re: How to manage file name containing a date with /

Sorry Dar I posted my answer to your first message before finding this one! Le 22 juil. 2013 à 16:11, Dar Scott a écrit : > I think I might not be under standing the situation. > > Questions inline. > > On Jul 22, 2013, at 6:50 AM, André Bisseret wrote: > >> Bonjour, >> >> Jacque, Dar and Pe

Re: How to manage file name containing a date with /

Dar- Monday, July 22, 2013, 8:05:15 AM, you wrote: > That is what I was suggesting, with the fix above. But, now I > have less faith in that. It might be that that character is not > really there but is displayed by Windows Explorer. I'd be very wary of trying to fool the operating system with

Re: How to manage file name containing a date with /

I think I might not be under standing the situation. Questions inline. On Jul 22, 2013, at 6:50 AM, André Bisseret wrote: > Bonjour, > > Jacque, Dar and Peter, thank you much for your attention to my problem. > Since your posts I made a number of trials during the weekend, following your > sug

Re: How to manage file name containing a date with /

André, I'm not sure why this will not work to create the file name: get "Joe PATIENT - bio checkup - 09" & numToChar(240) & "2013.pdf" I think I might not be understanding the situation. Are these all files on a network file server or a portable storage? They look one way (with colons) on a

Re: How to manage file name containing a date with /

Bonjour, Jacque, Dar and Peter, thank you much for your attention to my problem. Since your posts I made a number of trials during the weekend, following your suggestions but with no success. Reminder : the names of the files I am trying to launch from script have the following format : Joe PAT

Re: How to manage file name containing a date with /

A few ideas: 1. Maybe whatever char you get back from 'the files' will work. If you need to process the files in a folder just look at the files and look for a pattern that ignores the delimiter. Or take the file list and convert colon and numToChar(240) to "/" and then process. 2. I'm ass

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Andre, Not sure if this might help but there was a thread recently about using ISOToMac and MacToISO to handle ascii values above 127 entered on one platform and used on the other. Pete lcSQL Software On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:27 AM, André Bisseret wrote: > Thank you much

Re: How to manage file name containing a date with /

"André Bisseret" wrote: >So I tried >put quote & numToChar(240) into tVar >replace ":" with tVar in tDocName > again no success > >When I paste the mysterious char directly in the script it is >immediately replaced by "?" In the message box, do this : put charToNum('') and paste the copi

Re: How to manage file name containing a date with /

Thank you much Dar for your reply. This morning I tried on Windows: replace ":" with numToChar(240) in tDocName > no success but, actually, when I past the mysterious char (kind of period) in the message box, I get "ð I mean I get quote followed by ð So I tried put quote & numToChar(240) into

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Whoops. you have that one under control. Sorry about the crisp comments, I'm out the door! Dar On Jul 18, 2013, at 2:47 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > Similarly, if it was saved on Mac, use the appropriate numToChar( ...). ___ use-livecode mailing list u

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That is a lower case eth. The Unicode is 00F0, F0 in Latin-1. Windows uses some other font encoding. You might be able to use that character directly whatever it looks like. Windows will just see the code for it. On Windows. If it was saved to Windows and you are looking at it on Mac, then