Certain file names not correct in a .sfv file (semi-colons)

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Certain file names not correct in a .sfv file (semi-colons)

Post by Evert »

Certain file names are not recognised correct in a .sfv file.
E.g. a ; in a file name will cause problems.
As far as I could see.

Symptoms: skipping filles, marking files as not there.

I went back to a old version cause this one is very buggy.
I didn't analyse in depth what chars causes the problem.
(note W2K Pro NTFS)
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Post by Big-O Ryan »

Unfortunately, while ';' is a valid character in a windows filename, the SFV format uses the semi-colon as a special character which marks the start of a comment.

I cannot think of a way that hkSFV can support semi-colons in filenames and still remain compliant with the standard SFV format (and therefore compliant with other SFV programs).

However, if you do have any ideas on how we could better handle this, please let us know.
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