PRB: Exclamation Mark in Folder Name Causes Genmenu Error
Article ID: 153628
Article Last Modified on 5/12/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0b for Macintosh
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0b Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0a
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition
This article was previously published under Q153628
SYMPTOMS
If you generate a menu in a folder when name of that folder contains an
exclamation point (!), the following error appears:
File '<hard drive name>:<folder name>:<file name>.DBC' does not exist.
Line number 649
Here 'hard drive name' is the name of the Macintosh hard drive, 'folder
name' is the name of the folder up to the exclamation point, and 'file
name' is the text after the exclamation point. After you click the OK
button, another error appears:
Menu <file name> is invalid
Line number 657
Here 'file name' is the name of the menu file that Genmenu.prg attempted to
create.
The same errors occur in Visual FoxPro for Windows; however, the line
numbers and the path structures differ.
Remove the exclamation point from the folder name.
CAUSE
The Genmenu program has difficulty parsing a path that contains a folder
name that contains an exclamation point. The program is treating the
exclamation point as a separator between a database and a table name.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article.
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