File names with spaces difficulty

[Jim Ault]

>
> 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

Thanks - that did the trick with one slight change

  put URLDecode(item 1 of line 1 of it) into FN

instead of
  put URLDecoded(item 1 of line 1 of it) into FN

Jim Ault
Las Vegas

On Aug 3, 2009, at 1:55 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote:

> --- 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