Re: Receiving character '\r' in argv[] in a Foundation tool
Re: Receiving character '\r' in argv[] in a Foundation tool
- Subject: Re: Receiving character '\r' in argv[] in a Foundation tool
- From: Bryan Blackburn <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 00:50:02 -0700
- Mail-followup-to: Cocoa Developers <email@hidden>
Simplest way would be to take advantage of the shell's autocomplete
feature; typing "Icon<TAB>" should put the right character there. If
you're doing this in a shell script, in vi you can type "Icon^V^M"
to get the control character. Other editors may also use the Ctrl-V
method.
Bryan
On Feb 1, 2003 22:16, Pierre-Olivier Latour stated:
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> On 2/1/03 8:28 PM, "Pierre-Olivier Latour" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Its real name is "Icon\r".
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>> When I pass this name as an argument, I actually receive: "Iconr"
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> Did you try:
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> program Icon\\r
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> The \\ gets escaped to just \, which makes \r. Or you could do:
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> program "icon\r"
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> Quotes will remove the issue of the shell escaping any characters.
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Both do not work :(
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Actually, I just noticed that these files could not be passed to any
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terminal command e.g. "more Icon\\r" gives: "no such file or directory"
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Any other idea?
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Pierre-Olivier Latour email@hidden
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Palo Alto, USA http://www.pol-online.net
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