Re: File Path String From Save Panel
Re: File Path String From Save Panel
- Subject: Re: File Path String From Save Panel
- From: Peter Hudson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:07:41 +0000
Thanks Iain and Lee Ann
path was the method I needed.
Peter
On 4 Mar 2013, at 20:38, Lee Ann Rucker <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On Mar 4, 2013, at 8:25 AM, Peter Hudson wrote:
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>> I recover the path string from a Save Panel like so :-
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>> NSArray *pathComponents = [[sp URL] pathComponents];
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>> When I put them together again to use to write a file, any spaces in the file name are turned in symbols.
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>> Any suggestions what I am doing wrong ?
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> My first smart-alec reaction is to say "taking it apart and putting it back together", but seriously, that isn't a good idea. URLs aren't Unix file paths. If you've got a valid NSURL, why not keep it around and use it later? Which raises the question - how are you using it to write a file? If it's NSFileManager methods, the original NSURL is all you need; if lower-level or methods that only have NSString versions, use [NSURL path].
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> If you do need to split the path up, it would help to know why. lastPathComponent, pathExtension, and URLBy[Appending/Deleting]PathComponent should cover most of what you need to do with file paths. The last time I cared about pathComponents wasn't for file IO, it was for a "Recent Items" -style name disambiguator - you know, how it'll show just the lastPathComponent until there are two that match, and then it finds the first non-matching component.
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