Nelix Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 Ok, I think I have a verifiable bug in FileMaker 7. Try this it is easy to reproduce. I have a text field, and I need it to be set to a literal value. The value in this case is a path to a file share on a server. Sounds simple right? So I create a script step that says: Set Field [KnowlegeBase::SharePath; "\\MyServer\MyShare"] When the script step runs it should set the field Sharepath to the value \\MyServer\MyShare but it does not, it cuts off the first slash, so I get a value of \MyServer\MyShare Can someone else verify this, or does someone know why it would be doing this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slstrother Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 The backslash is an escape character which allow a funtion to return special characters. As an example, if you wanted a function to return "some text" the function can be entered as "\"some text\"" To return \\MyServer\MyShare the literal string would need to be entered as "\\\MyServer\MyShare" because the first backslash is interpreted as an escape character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelix Posted May 16, 2005 Author Share Posted May 16, 2005 Yes, that worked! Thank you, sorry about using the "B" word, lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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