RE: [ROOT] Invalid characters in TFile name

From: Philippe Canal (pcanal@fnal.gov)
Date: Tue Nov 18 2003 - 22:45:32 MET 

Hi Brandon,

For convenience in the general case, the parameter to TFile's constructor is
passed to TSystem::ExpandPathName.  In particular this means that when using
'meta-character' like '[' directly, you need to escape them.

Hence:
  new TFile("myfile\[1\].root");
should work in your case.

Cheers,
Philippe

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch
[mailto:owner-roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch]On Behalf Of Brandon Kohn
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:53 AM
To: roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch
Subject: [ROOT] Invalid characters in TFile name


Hello rooters,

I've noticed that the version of the system call 'open' used in TFile (win32
version of root 3.03) does not accept the full set of characters which are
valid on the OS. Among that characters that aren't allowed are [ and ] (so
filename myfile[1].root) is not allowed. However, there is nother inherently
wrong with this filename (windows allows it for all other files). Is there
anyway around this?

Brandon

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