Re: [sc-dev] String:escapeSpaces

[Scott Wilson <sdwilson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29 Nov 2006, at 17:06, Stefan Kersten wrote:

> Scott Wilson wrote:
> > > File("/Users/sk/Foo Bar", "r")
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > File("/Users/sk/Foo\\ Bar", "r")
> > >
> > > do not do the same thing ...
> >
> > Sorry if I'm being dense, but don't you have one more slash than  
> > you need?
> >
> > File("/tmp/Foo Bar", "w") and File("/tmp/Foo\ Bar", "w") do do the  
> > same
> > thing.
>
> in this case the literal escape is handled by the parser. "/tmp/Foo  
> Bar"
> and "/tmp/Foo\ Bar" are the same string when concatenated into a shell
> command and the command will choke on the unescaped whitespace.

Right! (So I am being dense... ;-)

So maybe all that needs to be done is to sort it out in a few places  
like Server:initClass (where program is set). I've actually just  
noticed String:quote, which works just as well.

If nobody objects, I'll do that.

S.