Prevent unicode in string input?

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Wed, 06/14/2017 - 05:37 pm

Hi All,

I have a function:
Function LoadFile(filePath)


where the filePath is a string which may contain something like:
.../031617

The problem is that the /031517 will get converted to something else because it is interpreted as a unicode character.

Is there any way to make this string interpreted "literally", for lack of a better term? I am already using  ParseFilePath to convert from Windows to Macintosh syntax, but this issue occurs before that conversion.


Thanks!
If you are on Windows, which it sounds like, forward slash is not allowed in a Windows path. At least on my Windows 10 machine, Explorer tells me that forward slash is not allowed if I try to use it in a file or folder name.

There is nothing in Igor that treats "/031617" as Unicode.

Igor does treat backslash followed by three digits as the octal code for a byte. If that is not what you want, use two backslashes. Execute this for details:
DisplayHelpTopic "Escape Sequences in Strings"

June 14, 2017 at 09:04 pm - Permalink

hrodstein wrote:
If you are on Windows, which it sounds like, forward slash is not allowed in a Windows path. At least on my Windows 10 machine, Explorer tells me that forward slash is not allowed if I try to use it in a file or folder name.

There is nothing in Igor that treats "/031617" as Unicode.

Igor does treat backslash followed by three digits as the octal code for a byte. If that is not what you want, use two backslashes. Execute this for details:
DisplayHelpTopic "Escape Sequences in Strings"


Sorry, I meant backslash. I will look into this topic. So it sounds like if the actual path name has a backslash followed by three digits I have to input it with two backslashes and there is no way to get around this.

I have another program which runs an Igor procedure via the command line and passes a filepath as an argument. It will be difficult to modify the output of the other program, which is why I want to do the interpretation in Igor.

Thanks.

June 15, 2017 at 12:11 am - Permalink