Re: Problem with extract EXT + NOEXT

Hi Fer,

> You should consider this behaviour as a bonus, not only
> capable of retrieving the extension of a file name, but also
> capable of retrieving (part of) folder names that contain dots.

Yeah, perhaps! But I currently don't see any use in that.

Chris


--- In [email protected], "Fer" <fmstoopman@...> wrote:
>
> 
> 
> Hi Chris
> 
> You should consider this behaviour as a bonus, not only
> capable of retrieving the extension of a file name, but also
> capable of retrieving (part of) folder names that contain dots.
> I always preceed extract ... ext/noext with extract ... file
> when I want to know the file extension. Just to be sure that
> the extension applies to the file name only and not to the whole
> file path.
> 
> 
> fer
> 
> 
> 
> > I never encountered this problem because I used "decent" file paths myself
> > but when I started to use directory names with dots for testing purpose
> > I found the following problem.
> > 
> > I used to use this code for xReqfile SAVE ... where the files to save
> > are of a particular type, say xyz and has to be saved in a sub folder
> > of the install directory.
> > 
> > ReqFile SAVE "Save xyz file" "#$path" temp "xyz files.../*.xyz"
> > if $temp = ''; return; endif
> > extract temp NOEXT
> > appVar temp '.xyz'
> > 
> > I use this because it's not clear if the user added a extension or not. 
> > 
> > C:/program v1.0.7/user_filename.xyz
> > 
> > Now if the user added a extension like above, there is no problem
> > but when he/she didn't, like...
> > 
> > C:/program v1.0.7/user_filename
> > 
> > "extract temp NOEXT" results in this...
> > 
> > C:/program v1.0
> > 
> > I suppose the function searches backwards till it finds the
> > first dot but it should stop searching when it finds the first
> > slash or backslash.
> > 
> > I think it's a small change and if you are planning a new
> > Gui4Cli version in the future, can you change this?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > 
> > Chris
> >
>




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