[Gambas-user] Strange behaviour of File.Read

[Jussi Lahtinen]

Perhaps more clear this way, maybe your file contains line:
"/home/bill/Pictures/Family/Visits/2000-07-29" instead of
/home/bill/Pictures/Family/Visits/2000-07-29 .
So, the quote marks shouldn't be there...

Jussi

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 10:47 PM, Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen at ...626...>
wrote:

> Is that the literal output?
> Because if there really are quote marks, then the command is equal to:
>
> Print IsDir("\"/home/bill/Pictures/Family/Visits/2000-07-29\"")
>
> Which is clearly false.
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> However if it is not literal output, then it is impossible to say what is
> read from the file to the string...
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> Jussi
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> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 4:36 PM, bill-lancaster via Gambas-user <
> gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
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>> I must be missing something - any ideas?
>> Gambas3.9.2
>> Components, gb.form, gb,gui, gb.image
>>
>> This is the code:-
>>
>> Public Sub Button1_Click()
>> Dim s As String
>>   s = File.Load(User.Home &/ "Pictures/PhotoFolder.txt")
>>   Print s
>>   Print IsDir(s)
>>   Print IsDir("/home/bill/Pictures/Family/Visits/2000-07-29")
>> End
>>
>> This is the output:-
>>
>> "/home/bill/Pictures/Family/Visits/2000-07-29"
>>
>> False
>> True
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