Re: fopen: space character in filename

From: Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:15:29 +0000
Subject: Re: fopen: space character in filename
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Christian Calloway wrote: > this seems like an easy question, but I could sure as hell couldn't find any > responces to it through initial searched. I am running php on an XP system > and I need to open a file contained with a set of directories which may or > may not have a space character; so for example: > > fopen ("X:\Dont Talk\About\My Momma\please.txt", "x"); > > I tried using \ characters, no luck (even attempted to cancel out the > backspace characters ala \\ and http space code %20, and still nothing.) Any > ideas? Spaces aren't your problem here, the \'s are. You need to escape them... fopen ("X:\\Dont Talk\\About\\My Momma\\please.txt", "x"); -Stut

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