CopyHTMLToClipboard and space characters in file names

[Immi]

CopyHTMLToClipboard appears not to work with strings containing spaces. It cuts the string at the first space.

Here is my sample code:

sFilename = “C:Program FilesGroupWiseGroupWise.exe”
Utilities.CopyHTMLToClipboard(“<DIV><A href=file://” & sFilename & “>” & sFilename & “</DIV>”)
GroupWise.EditPaste

This will cut the link to “C:Program” …

Any ideas? Help is appeciated.
Stephan

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[Support 1a]

The MS DOM doesn’t like spaces. I suspect you may need to replace the spaces in the URL with HTML encoded spaces, ‘%20’ from memory, before you copy the data to the clipboard.

Regards,

Advansys Support

[Support 1]

In your sample, sFileName should be encoded so it is a valid component of a URL (“file://…” in this case). You can do this with Formativ:

  dim iFileName
  dim oHtmlDom

  set oHtmlDom = Utilities.HTMLDom
  iFilename = oHtmlDom.HTMLEncode("C:Program FilesGroupWiseGroupWise.exe")
  ...

You may need to use other methods of HTMLDom to do all that’s needed, eg. DosPathToUnixPath.

I hope this helps you.

Regards,
Advansys Support

[Immi]

Hi Support 1 & 3

I have tried both solutions (HTMLencode and DosPathToUnixPath). They both cause the same problem. Thae path gets truncated. This is the HTML generated code:

HTMLEncode:
<A href=”file:///C:/Program” FilesGroupWiseGrpWise.exe>C:Program FilesGroupWiseGrpWise.exe</A>

DosPathToUnixPath:
<A href=”file:///C:/Program” GrpWise.exe GroupWise Files>C:/Program Files/GroupWise/GrpWise.exe</A>

Obviously the ” gets put in at the wrong place. This happens with GW6.5 and 7.0.
Funny enough I can later correct the path with the ‘insert link’ button and the space problem is gone. Not really a work around…. 🙁

I have resorted converting the filename to a 8.3 filename. This works.

Thanks for your help!

Stephan

[Support 1]

My apologies for misinforming you about HtmlEncode. In fact this function is for encoding characters deemed ‘special’ in HTML, eg. “&” is encoded as “&amp;”.

If you need a general-purpose routine for encoding a URL, you will need to write one (unless you can track down some source code via the Web, say). Google turns up this reference on which characters must be encoded.

I hope this is helpful.

Regards,
Advansys Support

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