Re: Handling files with problem characters in their names?

sb-ext:parse-native-namestring

On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 10:13 PM Jeff Cunningham
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> What is the best way to handle files whose names contain characters
> that break functions like FILE-LENGTH, NAMESTRING, and OPEN?
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> I keep running into this problem where I have large numbers of files
> from external sources - I have no control over how they are named and
> shouldn't change their names. Here's an example:
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> "file with [brackets].txt"
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> The pathname functions think it's a wildcard specification. I can
> escape the left-bracket it to work with most of those, but that
> doesn't work. Here's another example:
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> "राम.txt"
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> I keep coming up with adhoc solutions but I'm wondering how better
> programmers handle this?
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> Thanks.
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> -- Jeff
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