Re: On the difficulties of "/"" in Applescript with example
Re: On the difficulties of "/"" in Applescript with example
- Subject: Re: On the difficulties of "/"" in Applescript with example
- From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:50:46 +0200
In case it helps anyone, here is how we handle file names at Quomodo.com, where 30,000 dynamical web site are hosted and powered by AppleScripts which handle several requests every second through the Smile "script editor".
• in our scripts, we use only paths which are posix paths stored as strings. Such as: "/Library/WebServer/Documents/whatever"
• when we need to know whether a file exists, we use a home-made handler:
on validalias(x)
try
absoluteURL x as alias
return true
on error number -43
return false
end try
end validalias
absoluteURL is in Satimage.osax, yet I think you can write a sans-osax version:
on validalias(x)
try
posix file x as alias
return true
on error number -43
return false
end try
end validalias
• those commands and apps which do not accept to handle gracefully posix paths, we pass them "posix file x", example:
list folder posix file x
All the best, everybody!
Emmanuel
On Oct 18, 2013, at 12:17 AM, Shane Stanley wrote:
> On 18 Oct 2013, at 1:30 AM, Walter Bushell <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> -- merely once escaped quotes fail
>> try
>> set x to POSIX file "/Users/Walter/Music/\"ur\"file"
>> log x
>> tell application "Finder" to set B to name of file x
>> --log {"B quoted= ", b}
>> on error erorrStr number errnum
>> log {erorrStr, errnum}
>>
>> end try
>
> I don't see that here:
>
> set x to POSIX file "/Users/shane/Desktop/Date4 \"test\".txt"
> tell application "Finder" to set B to name of file x
> --> "Date4 \"test\".txt"
>
> --
> Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
> 'AppleScriptObjC Explored' <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
>
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