String to path for Name inside library

[Alexander_Sobolev]

Have found a strange behaviour, can you check if it is a bug, or it was a bug in LV2011.

I need to convert input string to a path and check if it is absolute path or relative. 

There is a problem when input string is a full name (including library):

library.lvlib:control.ctl 

when converted to path it is modified to:

library.lvlib:\control.ctl

Added "\" makes it very wrong and it is absolute path now.

[mcduff]

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@Alexander_Sobolev wrote:

Have found a strange behaviour, can you check if it is a bug, or it was a bug in LV2011.

I need to convert input string to a path and check if it is absolute path or relative. 

There is a problem when input string is a full name (including library):

library.lvlib:control.ctl 

when converted to path it is modified to:

library.lvlib:\control.ctl

Added "\" makes it very wrong and it is absolute path now.

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LabVIEW 2018 has the same result library.lvlib:\control.ctl

[thols]

You can add a backspace before the colon to make it relative. If that helps...

[DuncanW.]

Hi all,

I agree that this looks like erroneous behavior, but I'm not sure what the developers intended here so I'll need to check. In the meantime, an easy workaround would be to append ".\" to filepaths in the current directory.

Best,

Duncan Waldrop

Applications Engineer

National Instruments

[Alexander_Sobolev]

thols,

it would, but it is still absolute

Are they just checking presence of a colon?

[thols]

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@Alexander_Sobolev wrote:

thols,

it would, but it is still absolute

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No, not if you just add a backslash directly before the colon. But if you add something else before the colon (like "\b") then yes.

I meant like: "library.lvlib\:control.ctl".