Convert from URL to File Path String?

Dave dave at looktowindward.com
Wed Oct 31 21:02:36 EDT 2007


Hi,

Well it can literally anything, especially if you have a number of  
volumes on the machine.

I'm just gonna strip off the "File://localhost" and hope for the best  
unless anyone knows different?

Thanks a lot
All the Best
Dave


On 1 Nov 2007, at 00:59, Jim Ault wrote:

> if"/Users" is in urlLocal then
> --multi user OS installed
> else if "/Documents/" is in urlLocal then
> --single user machine
> else if "/My Documents/" is in urlLocal then
> --single user machine
> else
> -- do a third action here
> end if
>
> I don't have that much experience with all the versions and platforms
>
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
>
> On 10/31/07 5:45 PM, "Dave" <dave at looktowindward.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> On 1 Nov 2007, at 00:03, Jim Ault wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 10/31/07 4:38 PM, "Dave" <dave at looktowindward.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a URL of the form:
>>>>
>>>> file://localhost/Users/Dave/Folder/Folder/filex.xxx
>>>>
>>>> and I want to convert it to:
>>>>
>>>> /Users/Dave/Folder/Folder/filex.xxx
>>>>
>>>> Is there a function to do this, or do I just have to remove  
>>>> "file;//
>>>> localhost" from the front of the string?
>>>
>>> I would use one line to do this:
>>> put " file://localhost/Users/Dave/Folder/Folder/filex.xxx" into
>>> urlLocal
>>>
>>> put char offset("/Users/", urlLocal) to -1 of urlLocal into urlUsers
>>
>> It might not always start with "/Users/", for instance it could be:
>>
>> "file://localhost/Documents/....."
>>
>> I'm not sure if it's safe to just remove "file://localhost", anyone
>> know?
>>
>> All the Best
>> Dave
>>
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