FoxPro for Macintosh Allows Trailing Spaces in Filenames

• Microsoft FoxPro for Macintosh, version 2.5b
• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Macintosh, version 3.0b

SUMMARY

In the Macintosh environment, FoxPro allows trailing spaces in filenames. This behavior differs from that of FoxPro for Windows or FoxPro for MS-DOS, which automatically trim the trailing spaces.

Trailing spaces in filenames could potentially cause problems in FoxPro for Macintosh and other environments that allow long filenames.

Therefore, with the onset of more operating systems that allow long filenames and spaces in filenames, good programming practice would warrant trimming all filenames before actually creating the files.

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Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Type the following commands in the Command window:

         m.fileh = FCREATE("test ") && Note the trailing space
         =FPUTS( m.fileh, "This is a test")
         =FCLOSE( m.file )
   

2. Issue the ADIR() function. Note that the return string for this file contains a trailing space (that is, "Test ").