From: Dox Xer <doxxer@...>
Date: 2010-09-12T00:59:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Simply open a file using a variable

Jesús Gabriel y Galán wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Dox Xer <doxxer@xmail.net> wrote:
>> This seems to work fine:
>> `open'
>> � � � �from G:/mp3val-0.1.8_with_frontend-0.1.1-bin-win32/test.rb:35:in
>> `<main>'
>>
>>
>> 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.


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