Encoding Arrays with File Paths

[Bob Sneidar]

Okay I don’t think I am having an issue with arrayEncode. I think I am having an issue where arrayEncoding with MacOS is failing to arrayDecode in Windows and vis versa.

Bob S
 

> On Feb 18, 2025, at 1:28 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all. 
> 
> I think I have uncovered an issue with encoding / decoding arrays where some array elements are file paths. I’m thinking that the forweard slashes are interfering with the decoding process. I think this because the arrayEncoded data has the actual paths still intact in the data stream. 
> 
> I can work around this by base64encoding / decoding any elements with file paths, but I want to make sure that the array encoding process does in fact have issues with certain characters, and if it does what are those characters? Is there a list of them? Can I delimit them? 
> 
> Bob S
> 
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