Heads up: commas in file paths

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Tue Apr 14 15:54:24 EDT 2009


Jim Bufalini wrote:
> Bob Sneidar wrote:
>  
>> Anyone who works with data for any length of time will quickly come to
>> this one very practical principle: NO SPECIAL CHARACTERS IN FILE
>> NAMES! Period! (pun intended)
> 
> I agree. I don't even use spaces, so as to avoid having to encapsulate in
> quotes. Just upper and lower case. When a delimiter is absolutely necessary,
> I use an underscore character instead of a space because I have found an
> underscore is a pretty safe special character in all OSs and DBs I have
> used.

While I agree with all of this, the problem can occur in your customer's 
file paths when they are using your standalones. There's no way to 
control that, so be aware.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com



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