OpenEuphoria

Re: Path separators...final

• Posted by don cole <doncole at pacbell.net> Apr 15, 2006
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Al Getz wrote:
> 
> don cole wrote:
> > 
> > Hello Al,
> > 
> > To start with I made a mistake.
> > It should have been:
> > 
> > }}}
<eucode>
> > constant symbal={"`","*","~","@","&"}
> > ------------this would be a function returing newPath
> > sequence newPath
> > newPath=repeat({},2)
> > 
> >    if findAccent then
> >       for x=2  to length(symbal) do
> >         tt=testForSymbal[x]
> >            if tt=0  then
> >             newPath[1]= "`" & replaceAccentsWithSymbal(x) & "`"
> >             newPath[2]= symbal[x]--this is the symbal used to replace the
> >             non
> >                                  --delimiter accents
> >                                  --it will be used to replace non delimiter 
> >                                  --accents later on
> >             exit
> >            end if
> >        end for
> >     else
> >         newPath[1]="`" & line & "`"
> >         newPath[2]=0--this is 0 because no accents were replacedend 
> >     end if
> >    
> > 
> > > I 'think' i know what you are saying now, but one question i
> > > have is...how do you know which 'accents' to replace, for example
> > > in this line:
> > > 
> > >   'c:\mydir\my'file.exe'
> > How did the two end accents get in there at this point?
> > > 
> > > I thought about using the first char (ie the ' here) as delimiter,
> > > which would allow different delims for different lines too, but
> > > i want the UI to accept the non-delimiter form too like this:
> > > 
> > >   c:\mydir\my'file.exe
> > 
> > This would come out 'c:\mydir\my*file.exe'
> > 
> > 
> > Don Cole
> 
> Hi Don,
> 
> The accents got in there because the user could have typed them
> going by the rule that they have to use a delimiter to separate
> paths, as in:

I thought the whole point if the exercize was to add the delimiters with the
program. Why would the user type them in before hand?

> 
>   'c:\MyDir\My'File' 'd:\MyDir2\My'File2'
> 
> which as you can see wont work because the program wont know which
> accent to end the path(s) on.
> 
> Keep in mind we could also have this:
> 
>   'c:\MyDir\My'File' -' 'd:\MyDir2\My'File2' -'''
> 
> which would be strange, but still possible.
> 
> What this means is that we have to parse the paths and any arguments
> to each path that may be present.
> 
> I have other (future) plans to have the UI parse paths BEFORE any
> delimiters are needed (so the program can choose perhaps) but
> this part of the functionality will still remain intact...ie the
> user has the ability to enter the path typed as they see fit,
> with delimiters.
> 
> Another possibility when there are spaces in the path:
> 
>   "c:\MyDir\My 'Other' File" -'a'
> 
> Where does the user put the accents in this example, and when a second
> path (and arg) follows this one?
> 
> 
> Al
> 
> 
> My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"
> 
>  From "Black Knight":
> "I can live with losing the good fight,
>  but i can not live without fighting it".
> "Well on second thought, maybe not."


Don Cole