Bug in CreateDirectory?
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg78516] Bug in CreateDirectory?
- From: Markus Huber <mhla at gmx.at>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 05:36:57 -0400 (EDT)
Under certain circumstances I got some strange behavior with M6 when using CreateDirectory: CreateDirectory["c:\\test"] CreateDirectory::nffil: File not found during CreateDirectory[c: \test]. >> I traced the error back until I found out that this only occurs when I used StringPosition first. E.g. StringPosition["a", "a", MetaCharacters -> Automatic]; CreateDirectory["c:\\test"] leads to the error above (make sure the directory does not exist when trying). Evaluating CreateDirectory a second time makes no problems. So it seems that CreateDirectory gets somehow confused when using the MetaCharacters option. Can anyone confirm this? I run M6 on WinXP. By the way: This is how I circumvented the problem: Just insert any StringPosition command after the first one, but without the MetaCharacters option (or set it to None, the default value).