ccrook
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2 years ago Partially (and crudely) implemented as a "quick fix" in version 2.8.3. Support is limited to the coordinate files, data files, and command/config files.
Filenames with spaces are quoted in the command file, eg:
data_file "data files/distance obs.dat"Supported is limited in that:
- snap_manager does not recognise quoted file names and cannot be used to list or edit coordinate or data files with spaces in the file names.
- data file names with spaces are not identifiable as data_file classifications in commands such as reweight_observations
There may be other limitations not yet identified!
Issue raised by @mermy where SNAP cannot handle spaces in filenames or directories.
At first sight it looks like amending SNAP to handle spaces in filenames is a major exercise, more a rewrite. However this is largely a parsing issue with the historical use of the C library function strtok (something like 170 uses in 40 files?)
But it may be possible in the short time to write a plugin replacement for strtok that handles "some text with spaces" in the same way as strtok doesn't. In which case a "good enough" solution for the short term could work. Would need to assess impact on other potential issues, such as " in valid strings.