i´m totally new to ruby and have a tiny little problem.
I´d like to open a file located in a specific directory on a specific
drive with spaces in the path (Vista).
Example:
“f:\abc def\new\this is my file.txt”
This seems to work fine:
File.open(“f:\abc def\new\this is my file.txt”)
But in case i want to use a variable to do this like:
path = “f:\abc def\new\this is my file.txt”
File.open(path)
I always get this error:
G:/ruby/scripts/test.rb:35:in initialize': Invalid argument - "f:\abc def\new\this is my file.txt" (Errno::EINVAL) from G:/mp3val-0.1.8_with_frontend-0.1.1-bin-win32/test.rb:35:inopen’
from G:/mp3val-0.1.8_with_frontend-0.1.1-bin-win32/test.rb:35:in
`’
What do i do wrong or what do i need to add to make this working?
This seems to work fine: open' � � � �from G:/mp3val-0.1.8_with_frontend-0.1.1-bin-win32/test.rb:35:in ’
What do i do wrong or what do i need to add to make this working?
I can’t test it now in Windows but I seem to recall that you can use
forward slashes even in Windows:
path = “f:/abc/def/new/this is my file.txt”
Can you try that?
Jesus.
Hi Jesus and thanks for answering.
i tried this, but the result is the same. Only the slashes in the error
message are now different accordingly to the changed path variable.
I already tried a lot of different options like changing the slashed,
adding additionally escaping "" for each slash and for the blanks as
well, but the result is always the same.
I can open the file when i enter the path directly (also with
""-slashes), but using a variable in between leeds to this error.
btw: i made a smaller mistake while posting my example. The filename is
“p1 - this is my file.txt”. I don’t know, if the “-” is also a special
character, so i escaped this one as well…no luck.
i tried this, but the result is the same. Only the slashes in the error
message are now different accordingly to the changed path variable.
I already tried a lot of different options like changing the slashed,
adding additionally escaping “” for each slash and for the blanks as
well, but the result is always the same.
I can open the file when i enter the path directly (also with
“”-slashes), but using a variable in between leeds to this error.
btw: i made a smaller mistake while posting my example. The filename is
“p1 - this is my file.txt”. I don’t know, if the “-” is also a special
character, so i escaped this one as well…no luck.
Ok, got it. This is slightly confusing. I hope, the rest of Ruby makes
more sense.
This works:
file = File.open(“G:\abc Test\test - Doc.txt”)
and
s = “G:\abc\ Test\test - Doc.txt”
File.open(s)
In case a variable should be used, the space in the name of the
directory must be escaped. The one in the filename is not important.
Strange strange…
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