Re: Comparing FolderItems

Francois Van Lerberghe <[email protected]> Fri, 18 May 2018 10:36:26 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.realbasic.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It could be an issue related to decomposed/composed non-ASCII chars. What's the file name ? Has it non-ASCII chars ?

For compare folder name, I use
	MyFolder1.Name.ConvertEncoding(encodings.SystemDefault)

François Van Lerberghe
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> Le 18 mai 2018 à 10:24, Jean-Luc Arnaud <jean-luc-E/[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm issuing something strange (at least for me).
> 
> I'm probably wrong in my code but don't understand why.
> 
> I'm trying to compare 2 FolderItems as follow:
> 
>         If MyFolder1=MyFolder2.Child(MyFolder1_Name) Then
>             // It's the folderitem I'm looking for
>         EndIf
> 
> where MyFolder1_Name is a string representing MyFolder1.Name, and of course, MyFolder1 exists and is located in MyFolder2.
> 
> This results always as False, even if the folderitems are the same (verified comparing their NativePath).
> So, it seems like I should compare NativePaths instead of FolderItems themselves. But I would like to understand...
> 
> TIA for any information.
> 
> -- 
> Jean-Luc Arnaud
>