What the heck? Writing and reading ios files??

[Prothero-ELS]

JB,
Thanks for the comment. Yes, I went back to my previous use of “_” in the file name. All is working now. It was the difference between “l” and “L” in a file name. Sheesh!
Bill

William Prothero
https://earthlearningsolutions.org

> On Jun 25, 2020, at 2:27 PM, JB via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I don’t think the underscore character “_” should cause any problems
> in the pathname but if you use a space in the name you need to be
> sure and enclose the pathname in quotes or it will fail.
> 
> JB
> 
>> On Jun 25, 2020, at 1:53 PM, Terry Judd via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 26/06/2020, 02:40, "use-livecode on behalf of William Prothero via use-livecode" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>>   Jacqueline:
>>   Thanks for responding. I am really stuck on this. 
>> 
>>   I can write the file, and get a list of the files I write, but when I try to read the file using the same code to create the filepaths, etc, the read routine says the file doesn’t exist. It all works in the dev environment. I had used a “_” char in the filenames, so I removed it. The read routine can’t find the file. Very wierd.
>> 
>>   I’m going to try to make a very simple test case that I can run on my phone and post it, but I’m going to take a break. I’ve posted my file reading and writing code here, but there is probably too much to go through. 
>> 
>>   Thanks for responding,
>>   Bill
>> 
>> 
>> Hi  Bill - here's an example script that I use cross-platform (desktop, iOS and Android) for reading and writing a settings file using specialFoderPath("documents") on mobile and specialFolderPath("support") on desktop. In this case the 'settings' are an array that are stored in a multipurpose global array (gData).
>> 
>> Terry... 
>> 
>> global gData
>> 
>> on setPaths
>>  switch environment()
>>     case "mobile"
>>        put specialFolderPath("documents")&"/" into tFolder
>>        break
>>     default
>>        put specialFolderPath("support")&"/myAppName/" into tFolder
>>        if not (there is a folder tFolder) then
>>           create folder tFolder
>>        end if
>>  end switch
>>  put tFolder&"settings.dat" into gData["paths"]["settings"]
>> end setPaths
>> 
>> on loadSettings
>>  put gData["paths"]["settings"] into tPath
>>  put url ("binfile:"&tPath) into tSettings
>>  if tSettings is not empty then
>>     put arrayDecode(tSettings) into tSettingsA
>>     if tSettingsA is an array then
>>        put tSettingsA into gData["settings"]
>>     else
>>        # invalid settings data
>>     end if
>>  else
>>     # no settings file
>>  end if
>> end loadSettings
>> 
>> on updateSettings
>>  put gData["paths"]["settings"] into tPath
>>  put gData["settings"] into tSettings
>>  put arrayEncode(tSettings) into tSettings
>>  put tSettings into url ("binfile:"&tPath)
>> end updateSettings
>> 
>> on clearSettings
>>  put gData["paths"]["settings"] into tPath
>>  if there is a file tPath then delete file tPath
>> end clearSettings
>> 
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