Bad non-num char in size field in cm_CopyFileDetailsToClip -

[lennart.johansson]

Thanks for the new, longed-for, feature to get filenames AND sizes AND dates to clipboard or file, but:

Problem: The numeric size values contain bad characters 0xa0 (used as thousand-separator). This is nice on-screen but makes it difficult to use the resulting list in e.g. scripts or with simple sorting commands.

WISH: Please remove the thousand-separator characters in the list in clipboard or file. I think it is in cm_SaveDetailsToFile, cm_CopyFileDetailsToClip, cm_CopyNetFileDetailsToClip, cm_CopyFpFileDetailsToClip.

Example:
C:\binw\wcbeta\HISTORY.TXT 230 183 06-10-31 07:00 -a--
C:\binw\wcbeta\KEYBOARD.TXT 9 082 06-10-31 07:00 -a--
would be much better if formated as below, where a simple script
or sort tool can interpret the sizes:
C:\binw\wcbeta\HISTORY.TXT 230183 06-10-31 07:00 -a--
C:\binw\wcbeta\KEYBOARD.TXT 9082 06-10-31 07:00 -a--

Please do this now, before people start using this new feature (by writing scripts assuming the current format). Optionally add a wincmd.ini parameter to remove the thousand-separator in the output to file or clipboard.

[petermad]

I can not confirm this. I have tried both using the following functions:

cm_CopyFileDetailsToClip,
cm_CopyFpFileDetailsToClip,
cm_CopyNetFileDetailsToClip,
cm_SaveDetailsToFile

and with all of them I get character 0x2e (a period) using Danish Windows XP and character 0x2c (a comma) using US Windows XP as thousand separator - just as expected.

[SanskritFritz]

2petermad
The complaint is not about a wrong separator character - it is about the existence of any separator char in the copied result. While I can understand the request, I doubt it will be easy to implement, unless the internals of the copy function know about the field being numeric.

[petermad]

2SanskritFritz

Problem: The numeric size values contain bad characters 0xa0 (used as thousand-separator).

What am I supposed to believe when reading the above

Especially when it is posted in the Bug reports forum and not in the Beta discussion+suggestions forum

[ghisler(Author)]

TC copies the details in the same format as they are shown in the file list. Currently I don't have any plans to change this, sorry.