Checking a string for spaces

[dbailey]

Hi All,

What is the easiest way to check a string for spaces?.

If I have a filename called "The movie.mov" contained in a string say tFilename and I want the movie player to play that file without error?.

[dbailey]

I just figured out a solution:-

replace space with "%20" in tFileName

seems to work

[Klaus]

What is the easiest way to check a string for spaces?

replace space with "%20" in tFileName

Hm, I am having a hard time to figure out the context of these two statements...

[dunbarx]

Klaus.

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men...

dbailey, good that you found a solution, but do you also see other ways to actually discover or delineate whether (and where) a string might contain spaces? A repeat loop that checks each char, or maybe the "is among" operator, that can drill down to the character level?

Craig Newman

[kray]

If I have a filename called "The movie.mov" contained in a string say tFilename and I want the movie player to play that file without error?.

FYI: If you're working with a full path to the file, and you're using Windows, you can use the shortFilePath function, which returns an 8.3 formatted file path with no spaces:

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put "C:/Program Files/My App/My App Files/The movie.mov" into tPath
put shortFilePath(tPath) into tShortPath

--> puts the string "C:/PROGRA~1/MYAPP~1/MYAPP~1/THEMOV~1.mov" into tShortPath

Of course you already found a solution, but keep this in mind for the future if you need it.