Error open file: The specified file could not be opened because it could not be found?

[daitranthanhoa]

File name ="115%11.ai"

If open file , occur error: The specified file could not be opened because it could not be found.

Why? How can open this file?

[LeoTaro]

Mac or Windows?

Are you trying to open the file from plugin code, a script or just opening it in Illustrator?

The percent sign in the name is probably something to do with it.

[daitranthanhoa]

I open by Code, in Window.

"115%1.ai","115%9.ai" open ok.

"115%11.ai","115%10.ai",... open error.

[LeoTaro]

The files "115%11.ai","115%10.ai" do definately exist?

Can you show your code?

[daitranthanhoa]

Dim strFileName="D:\Data\115%11.ai""

oApp.Open(strFileName)

[LeoTaro]

Is that your real code? You have two double quotes at the end of the first line.

[Qwertyfly___]

your 5 posts in before you hint at the fact that you are working with VB and not JS.

not so confident in VB.

but in JS the open function requires a file object not a path.

also the \ can act as an escape char.

example of what this would look like in Javascript:

var myFile  = File("D:/Data/115%11.ai");
app.open(myFile);

[Qwertyfly___]

so having a play with VB.

Set appRef = CreateObject("Illustrator.Application")
Set docRef = appRef.Open("C:\Users\tristan\Desktop\~~~Crap\11511.ai")

this works no problem

Set appRef = CreateObject("Illustrator.Application")
Set docRef = appRef.Open("C:\Users\tristan\Desktop\~~~Crap\115%11.ai")

this fails!

VB is not my thing and I don't do much with it so it has me a little

edit:

if I open the file and run this:

Set appRef = CreateObject("Illustrator.Application")
msgbox appRef.ActiveDocument.Name

I get a message box with:

115%11.ai

so I guess that means I will be no help at all unless you decide to use javascript.

maybe if CarlosCanto‌ is online he may shed some light, as he plays with VBscript and he is a fountain of knowledge...

[LeoTaro]

The reason is that in VB strings you can use % followed by a hex number to represent a single character with that ascii code, e.g. %61 = a

When you have 115%1.ai or 115%9.ai you have a single digit and a period after the %, as this is not a valid hex number, AI just treats the % as a % character. When you have 115%10.ai or 115%11.ai, you have a valid hex number after the %, so %10 gets replaced by the character with ascii code 16 (hex 10) and %11 gets replaced by the character with ascii code 17 (hex 11).

So how do you work around this? One way is to replace the % character with %25 as % has the acsii hex code 25, so 115%2510.ai will be converted to 115%10.ai.

[Qwertyfly___]

‌nice explanation

interisting that when displayed in a message box it showed the 115%11.ai as is.

i Really need to improve my vb.

im starting to play with vb.net so that should help.