Reporting Bugs To FMI

[SteveB]

Since I seem to be a magnet for finding bugs, and since I was unable to find a way to report them to FMI, I contacted someone on another forum who is an FMI techie. He gave me the web page to report problems:

Link

One that I stumbled across yesterday:

If you try to concatenate a file path in a calc: "c:FolderName" & filename.

You'll get an error. Solution is to add a space after the 2nd "" above and use TRIM to remove it.

Steve

[CyborgSam]

This isn't a bug. FileMaker uses the as an escape character within text strings in calculations. To display a " in a text string, insert ". To display the backslash, insert . To display a paragraph mark insert ¶ (this may not show properly in all web browsers). Attached is a demo of this in action.

Backslash.fp7.zip

[SteveB]

I don't ever remember having a problem with v5 or v6 doing this.

Steve

[comment]

That's correct - but you don't remember having the Evaluate() function then, either.

[SteveB]

No, and neither did I have custom functions, tabs, custom menus, etc. What's the point?

Steve

[comment]

You didn't have a problem with the backslash character, because in pre-7 versions it wasn't an escape character. There wasn't any escape character.

[SteveB]

I see.

Thanks