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

Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 10:05 am
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)

Posted: Sun May 18, 2003 1:08 am
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.