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Re: Length of a filename
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Re: Length of a filename


  • Subject: Re: Length of a filename
  • From: "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:19:20 +0200


On 16 Oct 2008, at 16:18, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:


Le 16 oct. 08 à 11:31, Gerriet M. Denkmann a écrit :


How can I check the appositeness of a filename?

This will not work:
if ( [potentialPath length] > 255 )  ... error: filename too long
because HFS+ uses some decomposed form.

This might work:
if ( [[ NSString stringWithUTF8String: [potentialPath fileSystemRepresentation] ] length] > 255 ) ...
but looks kind of convoluted and inefficient.


There are two methods in NSString:
decomposedStringWithCanonicalMapping
decomposedStringWithCompatibilityMapping
but the documentation does not say which (if any) should be used to convert a potentialPath into a form used in HFS+.



OSStatus FSGetHFSUniStrFromString(CFStringRef str, HFSUniStr255 *uniStr);

Looks promising, but does not work - it does not decompose the filename:
NSString *f1 = [ NSString stringWithUTF8String: "bête" ];
HFSUniStr255 uniStr;
FSGetHFSUniStrFromString( (CFStringRef)f1, &uniStr);
NSLog(@"HFSUniStr length %hu", uniStr.length); // this is the original length, NOT the decomposed lenght
Returns 4 - but the decomposed length is 5.


But your advice (and of Michael Ash) not to preflight a filename is probably correct.
Thanks for pointing this out.


Kind regards,

Gerriet.

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