Getting the type code of a file under OSX

[Alex Tweedly]

Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Alex Tweedly wrote:
>
>> You could try (I did !!) using the trick I saw from Richard a couple 
>> of weeks ago, using a complex filter expression to ensure the right 
>> number of items - e.g.
>>   filter ... pFileName & ",*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*"  but that also fails 
>> the "a,11" case as above.
>
>
> For grabbing just one line I often just include boundaries around the 
> text with lineOffset:
>
>   put lineoffset(cr& tMyFileame&"," , cr& tFileList)
>
> Because the file names are URL encoded commas become %2C, so I don't 
> believe there's a risk of getting commas in the name confused with 
> delimiters.

There is a danger if you urlDecode() them first, which the code sample did.
You're quite right - if you urlEncode() the file name passed in, that is 
a much safer, and easier,  method.

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