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Re: file_search problem [message #92353 is a reply to message #92352]

Wed, 25 November 2015 07:45

Jim Pendleton
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Registered: November 2011

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On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 2:09:56 AM UTC-7, greg...@googlemail.com wrote:
> I have a directory (on Windows7) containing some filenames with Romanian special characters, e.g.
>
> ă.txt
> în.txt
>
>
> The OS 'dir' command shows them...
>
> 25/11/2015 09:41 <DIR> .
> 25/11/2015 09:41 <DIR> ..
> 25/11/2015 09:31 0 în.txt
> 25/11/2015 09:31 0 ă.txt
> 2 File(s) 0 bytes
> 2 Dir(s) 1,043,905,544,192 bytes free
>
>
> file_search(path,"*.txt") returns the file with the 'î' but doesn't see the file with 'ă' at all.
>
>
> cheers,
> Greg

A work-around is to use the old FINDFILE function, but you should report this to support at exelisvis.com.

A substantial amount of work was put into I18N a few releases ago, but it looks like this is a special case.

Interesting...

IDL> print, byte('î')
238
IDL> print, string(238b)
î

...however,

IDL> print, byte('ă')
97
IDL> print, string(97b)
a

Jim P.

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		file_search problem By: greg.addr on Wed, 25 November 2015 01:09
		Re: file_search problem By: Jim Pendleton on Wed, 25 November 2015 07:45
		Re: file_search problem By: Lajos Foldy on Wed, 25 November 2015 07:58
		Re: file_search problem By: Heinz Stege on Wed, 25 November 2015 09:05
		Re: file_search problem By: greg.addr on Wed, 25 November 2015 12:38

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