"\" and "/" changing in file names in windows.

[Tribblehunter]

Having a liitle issue with file names in windows 8

on one run of the livecode app i have built the filename of the file has "/" in the title.

on other runs it has "\" in the title.

Anyone else had this issue?

[FourthWorld]

LiveCode uses the standard Unix convention internally. Under what circumstances were you seeing Windows paths?

[Tribblehunter]

Hi.

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get the mainStack of me
   put the filename of stack it into tFilename

Filename had "/" as seperator, but then code failed and it had changed to "\".

It is an autosave stack which I add to my mainstacks which saves the file every 600 seconds under a new name using time and date reference

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   set itemdelimiter to "/"
   delete last item of tFileName
   put it into tVersion
   put "/"& tVersion&& tDate2&tTime&".livecode" after tFileName 
   save stack tVersion as tFileName

[FourthWorld]

Filename had "/" as seperator, but then code failed and it had changed to "\".

What is the recipe to reproduce this failure?

I've never seen LiveCode use anything but Unix paths in the 17 years I've been using it, but perhaps this is a recent regression. The code needed to reproduce the issue along with the version number of the LiveCode engine in which this fails will allow the team to fix this quickly.

[Klaus]

Quick shot:
You are using the variable tDate2 in your script, does it hold an ENGLISH date?
That will have SLASHES in it and maybe LC tries to ESCAPE these in the filename when saving to disk?

[Tribblehunter]

Hi all.

Trying to recreate the glitch. Will post details when it occurs again. If at all.