On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:02:00 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:

>>> Cool. I just hope your filenames don't contain any of the characters
>>> that Tcl considers to be "special" either. :-P
>> 
>> Well, I use C, and it deals with literal strings, but I suspect TCL is
>> the same in that regard.
> 
> Tcl encodes all data types as strings. I've been bitten by this
> before... You write a Tcl script, it works fine, and then it encounters
> some input that happens to contain a curly-bracket or a dollar sign and
> Weird Crap happens...

That's one of the potential pitfalls with most scripting languages.

Jim

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