More on File Path Strings

We're also going to allow people to use / as a path separator in the Windows version. This means that no files can contain / as part of the file name. Matt Neuburg researched this a bit, and found that there's precendent for this in Microsoft tools and in PERL.

On the Mac the file path delimiter will be as it always was, a colon.

To get the ball rolling, I wrote a script called workspace.processFileURL. When this is final it'll be baked into the kernel in all file.xxx verbs.

Anywhere a file path is legal, file:/// syntax will be legal too.

This is a fat page. Do a Get Page Data to copy workspace.processFileURL into your object db.

A new verb, sys.os, is used to tell what OS we're running under.

Here's the source for workspace.processFileURL:

on processFileURL (s)

local (prefix = "file:///")

if string.lower (s) beginsWith prefix

s = string.delete (s, 1, sizeOf (prefix))

s = string.urlDecode (s)

case sys.os ()

"MacOS"

s = string.replaceAll (s, "/", ":")

"Win95"

"WinNT"

s = string.replaceAll (s, "/", "\\")

return (s)

bundle «test code

dialog.alert (file.exists (processFileURL ("file:///Macintosh%20HD/Online%20Docs/admin/credits.html")))