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Re: forward slash in data item name [message #52082 is a reply to message #52050]

Fri, 29 December 2006 09:10

David Fanning
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maye writes:

> I wonder if there's a way I can avoid the following problem:
> I create plot file names automatically from the data item name in a
> first row of a csv file.
> Unfortunately, one of the data item names has a forward slash in it
> (DC/DC), which leads to the case, that my routine wants to create a
> file name: "DC/DC.jpg" which of course is interpreted as a directory
> creation.
> Of course I could check every data item name for such a thing to occur
> and replace every slash with an underscore, but is there not a simpler
> way to avoid such caveats?

I'm afraid you are going to have to check it. Probably
the simplest thing is to just replace the "/" with
something else. Here is an article that describes an
easy way to do that:

http://www.dfanning.com/code_tips/stringsubs.html

Cheers,

David
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Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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