| Re: Spaces in Mac file names [message #83991] |
Sat, 13 April 2013 21:19  |
Michael Galloy
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Registered: April 2006
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On 4/13/13 12:33 PM, Jeff N. wrote:
> On Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:30:22 PM UTC-4, kagol...@lbl.gov wrote:
>> Regarding spaces in Mac file and directory names: I know this is an old topic, but is there a generally accepted method, or a library function in someone's IDL library, to take a file name as input and output ac copy with the spaces escaped properly with backslashes?
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>> In other words, take
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>> /this/directory/has spaces/youknow.txt
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>> and output
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>> /this/directory/has\ spaces/youknow.txt
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>> I need this for a spawn command to work on arbitrary files. Thanks!
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> I usually do this:
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> ENVI> path = '/this/directory/has spaces/youknow.txt'
> ENVI> print, strjoin(strsplit(path, ' ', /extract), '\ ')
> /this/directory/has\ spaces/youknow.txt
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Careful, multiple spaces won't be treated correctly. Use /PRESERVE_NULL:
IDL> path = '/this/directory/has spaces/you know.txt'
IDL> print, strjoin(strsplit(path, ' ', /extract), '\ ')
/this/directory/has\ spaces/you\ know.txt
IDL> print, strjoin(strsplit(path, ' ', /extract, /preserve_null), '\ ')
/this/directory/has\ spaces/you\ \ know.txt
Mike
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Michael Galloy
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Modern IDL: A Guide to IDL Programming (http://modernidl.idldev.com)
Research Mathematician
Tech-X Corporation
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