File names with spaces difficulty

[Jan Schenkel]

--- On Mon, 8/3/09, Jim Ault <jimaultwins at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I know this has been answered before
> but I cannot find it in the archives.
> 
> (on a Mac OSX 10.5 system)
> I am receiving files via FTP that have several spaces and
> cannot remember how to do:
>     
>     put "/Users/username/Documents/feed/"
> into pathh
>     set the defaultfolder to pathh
>     get the detailed files
> 
>     put item 1 of line 1 of it into FN
>     put url ("file:" & pathh & FN)
> into dataBlock  --  < does not work
> 
> The file name on the hard drive is    "ALL BOOKS
> AND ARTICLES VOL 1.xml"
> The variable FN is   
> "ALL+BOOKS+AND+ARTICLES+VOL+1.xml"
> Replacing the   + 
> chars   in FN  does not work either.
> 
> Perhaps the answer is to use a shell() command?
> 
> Thanks for any advice.
> 
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
> 

Hi Jim,

All the filenames that you get from the 'detailed files' are URLEncoded, so this ought to do the trick:
##
  put URLDecoded(item 1 of line 1 of it) into FN
  put url ("file:" & pathh & FN) into dataBlock
##

HTH,

Jan Schenkel
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