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Title: blanks in directory name
Post by: bmcnish on January 07, 2016, 02:51:01 PM

I have a script that does DirExist("%destdir%") where the destdir ihas blanks in the name . It always fails on this line. How can I get it return a true value?

Title: Re: blanks in directory name
Post by: td on January 07, 2016, 02:59:05 PM

The DirExist function does not care where or not the input path contains blank characters. Why are you using substitution and what do you mean by 'fail'?

Title: Re: blanks in directory name
Post by: snowsnowsnow on January 07, 2016, 09:05:05 PM

I would imagine that if the "destdir" variable contains newlines (I.e., CRLF) in it, the above statement would "fail" big time.

Title: Re: blanks in directory name
Post by: td on January 08, 2016, 06:46:33 AM

If by "fail big time" you mean the function returns zero, that is correct.

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