Re: Paths & quoted form & do shell script
Re: Paths & quoted form & do shell script
- Subject: Re: Paths & quoted form & do shell script
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 18:25:09 +0100
- Thread-topic: Paths & quoted form & do shell script
on 9/10/05 18:02, Paul Berkowitz at email@hidden wrote:
> I think Matt is probably right about the null characters. There are
> interesting coercions in AppleScript that ignore these in some conditions.
>
> What happens if you read as Unicode and then explicitly coerce to string:
>
> set thePath to (paragraph 1 of (read file tFile as Unicode text)) as
> string
Nothing unfortunately. I tried that as soon as I found that a version of the
string pasted to the Terminal worked as expected, yet "do shell script"
didn't.
> There might still be a trailing or leading null character hanging bout but
> I'd hope that the explicit 'as string' coercion might remove all of them.
>
>>
>> If I write the file using the shell by doing:
>>
>> echo "/path/to/whatever" > /path/to/the/file
>>
>> The script works as expected and I get what I wanted.
>
> Interesting. How were you writing to the file before?
I read the path, made sure it was a string, opened a file for write access,
wrote the path to the file and then closed it. The plain text file opens and
looks just as I'd expect - a single line of text showing the file path.
Embarrassingly, I've dug myself into this hole because I thought it would be
easier to hack a prefs file for an Xcode project rather than RTFM and learn
how to do it properly :(
That'll teach me...
--
Martin Orpen
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