FoxPro for Macintosh Allows Trailing Spaces in Filenames (109601)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft FoxPro for Macintosh 2.5b
Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Macintosh 3.0b

This article was previously published under Q109601

SUMMARY

In the Macintosh environment, FoxPro allows trailing spaces in filenames. This behavior differs from that of FoxPro for Windows or FoxPro for MS-DOS, which automatically trim the trailing spaces.

Trailing spaces in filenames could potentially cause problems in FoxPro for Macintosh and other environments that allow long filenames.

Therefore, with the onset of more operating systems that allow long filenames and spaces in filenames, good programming practice would warrant trimming all filenames before actually creating the files.

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Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Type the following commands in the Command window:

      m.fileh = FCREATE("test ") && Note the trailing space
      =FPUTS( m.fileh, "This is a test")
      =FCLOSE( m.file )

Issue the ADIR() function. Note that the return string for this file contains a trailing space (that is, "Test ").

NOTE: If this filename was stored in a 10-character database field, there would be no way of determining exactly how many spaces were after the filename.

Modification Type:	Major	Last Reviewed:	10/15/2003
Keywords:	KB109601 kbAudDeveloper