[chuck-users] Windows, drives, and Machine.add

[Roger Critchlow]

The source code in chuck-1.2.1.3 that processes the argument to Machine.add
is expecting to parse a filename and optional arguments using colons to
separate the filename and arguments, but it also looks like it's trying to
allow \: to escape a colon.

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Rebecca Fiebrink
<fiebrink at princeton.edu>wrote:
>
>> Have any ChucK windows users figured out how to accomplish Machine.add
>> with a fully-qualified path name that includes the drive letter?
>>
>> Machine.add("C:/Users/rebecca/tmp.ck") results in error
>> "[C]: no such file or directory"
>
>
That happens because the colon is treated the separator between the file
name and an argument.


and Machine.add("C\:/Users/rebecca/tmp.ck") results in error
>> [tmp2.ck]:line(2): unrecognized escape sequence '\:'
>>
>>
That happens, most probably, because the Chuck parser is attempting to
translate escape sequences into characters, long before even constructing
the call to Machine.add().

Try

   Machine.add("C\\:/Users/rebecca/tmp.ck")

that will let the escape sequence parse parse \\ into \, and then the
argument parser will see \: and leave your filename alone.

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