On Mar 8, 2011, at 8:07 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 3/8/11 4:37 PM, Terry Judd wrote: >> Due to an obscure but annoying issue with OSX 10.5 I need to be able to >> check for the existence of a file based on the case of its name before I can >> launch it from Livecode. The exists function isn¹t case sensitive and the >> only idea I¹ve been able to come up with to date is to use the files >> function, filter the results based on the filename and then compare the two >> filenames (having set the caseSensitive property to true). This seems a bit >> long winded and I was hoping for a simpler and quicker way. > > The Mac isn't case-sensitive, and it won't let you duplicate names regardless > of their case. I'm curious why you'd need to distinguish by that. > > I can't think of any other way to compare case than what you've come up with > though.
Do I remember correctly that one can format an HFS+ volume to be case-sensitive? I never heard of anybody actually doing it, except just before they un-did it because of all the trouble it caused. Jerry Jensen _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
