Filesave name trouble

Panorama X
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I’m having trouble saving a text file with a time stamp in the file name.

local textFileName

textFileName="SQUARE "+superdatepattern(supernow(),“Month ddnth, yyyy at “,“hh:mm am/pm”)+”.txt”

filesave “/Users/jeffdean/Documents/Sculpture/Business - Finances/Gallery Sales/Exports For Wave/”+textFileName,exportForWave

I get the error in the procedure window "Filesave error: the file “21 pm.txt” doesn’t exist.

If I run the procedure with “test.txt” as the file name, it works.

What is it not liking?

Thanks,
Jeff

2

Don’t know if the post messed up the smart quotes but that could be where the problem is. Replace all the smart quotes with standard quotes and see if that helps:

"SQUARE "+superdatepattern(supernow(),"Month ddnth, yyyy at ","hh:mm am/pm")+".txt"
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It appears that filesave automatically replaces colons with slashes. These two procedures both worked to save a file

filesave info("desktopfolder")+"testing.txt","Hello World"

and

filesave replace(info("desktopfolder")+"testing.txt","/",":"),"Hello World"

The colon in your time is being converted to a slash, and that causes it to be mistaken for a folder separator in the path.

This looks like a bug to me. It’s not going to convert a valid HFS path to a valid UNIX path because an HFS path begins with the volume name, and a UNIX path does not.

4

Thanks, Gary and Dave

I replaced the colon with a period, which works for my purposes.

Jeff

5

The Finder doesn’t allow colons or slashes in file names, so neither does Panorama.

6

The Finder does allow slashes, and in a UNIX context, they appear as colons.

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In the Finder the file name appears as 1/20 PM. ls in Terminal shows it as 1:20 PM. When I dragged its icon into a Panorama procedure window, its name in the path that was written was 1:20 PM. However, fileload( can’t load a file with that name.