Add item to list "Illegal characters in path"

[theninjamanz 29]

I have used the $Get Files command to pull back a list of file names from a folder.

 

What I am trying to do is add the content of a single file contained in the folder to a list.

 

However, the following code returns the error "illegal characters in path".

 

However the $read file is fine.

 

 

add item to list(%article titles, $get files("{$special folder("Application")}\\articles\\{#project name}\\", "No"), "Delete", "Global")

set(#current article, $next list item(%article titles), "Global")

add item to list(%current article content, $read file("{$special folder("Application")}\\articles\\{#project name}\\{#current article}"), "Delete", "Global")

 

Thanks for any help.

[Legend 181]

That error will return when you have characters like ? [ ] / \ = + < > : ; " , * | in your filenames...

[theninjamanz 29]

Yes, that is what I thought, and I don't have any of there:

 

If I spell out the fields

 

$specialfolder (is the application folder) \ articles (is the folder) \ #project name (is the projectname set at the UI and is also the name of the folder where the articles are stored) \ #current article (is $next list item on a previously scraped $getfiles - Include path no).

 

So in theory where I have a folder called myfirstproject and two files 1.txt and 2.txt

 

I should get the following output from my Add item to list:

 

Application\articles\myfirstproject\1.txt

 

But instead I get a $read file error.

 

Is there a problem adding stuff to lists using the $read file command?

[theninjamanz 29]

Yes, that is what I thought, and I don't have any of there:

 

If I spell out the fields

 

$specialfolder (is the application folder) \ articles (is the folder) \ #project name (is the projectname set at the UI and is also the name of the folder where the articles are stored) \ #current article (is $next list item on a previously scraped $getfiles - Include path no).

 

So in theory where I have a folder called myfirstproject and two files 1.txt and 2.txt

 

I should get the following output from my Add item to list:

 

Application\articles\myfirstproject\1.txt

 

But instead I get a $read file error.

 

Is there a problem adding stuff to lists using the $read file command?

 

 

Up anyone can help?

[xenergy 3]

It might be late to post a comment on this thread, but just in case other people having the same issue.

So I found out that you must save your file in ANSI encoding if you want to use file's content for directory path usage.

 

Somehow a strange invisible characters (?) appears on the very first part of the file content when you read a UTF-8 encoded it using $read file or $list from file functions. You can only see this characters using notepad++ with "Show all characters" option on. This will not be appear in other text editor (i.e. notepad).

 

I'm not sure if this is a bug, of a expected behavior for UTF-8 encoded file.

 

Hope it helps.