Marc

François,

Just reporting a bug I stumbled on recently.

The problem comes when you want to strip a network path that looks like this "\\server\dir\subdir".

When stripping the path with the "Strip Path" primitive, it would correctly output "\\server\dir" for the stripped path and "subdir" for name.

Doing it a second time should return "\\server" for stripped path and "\dir" for name.

Instead, you get an empty stripped path and the input is copied to name output (Incorrect results).

Paths in LabVIEW have always considered \\server\share to be an atomic unit. I rewrote several low-level path functions in LabVIEW and found that strange. Windows is the only platform in LabVIEW that supports this concept (called UNC paths, at least in LabVIEW code).

In 8.0 and 8.2, you'll actually get nothing for "name 2" and <Not a Path> for the stripped path.

Asbo, you're right. I missed that when I rewrote those functions. I'll look into that.

Furthermore, if the stripped path output is wired, it will most likely crash LabVIEW. The current workaround is to assign a drive letter to the network path using "Map Network Drive" in Windows. (Dunno for other OS) It works fine with path that start with "X:\"

I'll look into that. I think if I fix the behavior that Asbo is talking about, the crashes should go away.

Thank you so much for bringing this up.