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Hello ahk world:

I'm totally newbie in ahk scripting, and I would like to do a very simple thing.

I have a Unicode text file containing file names. It's very simply structured: old file name, space, new file name)

E:\0AAA\00001Test.pdf E:\0AAA\00001Test-世界科技(1).pdf
E:\0AAA\00002Test.pdf E:\0AAA\00002Test-世界科技(2).pdf

I would like to retrieve the different filenames into variables FA and FB



At execution, I have the message "The following variable name contains an illegal character : "E:\0AAA\00001Test.pdf" at
FA := %A_LoopField%

It may seem obvious to experimented scripters, but I would like to know if there is a way to put full file names into variables?

Thanks in advance.

Since a space is a legal filename character it's not the best to use as a separator. May be better to use like a vertical bar, semicolon or even have the old names on the odd lines and the new names on the even lines. This works pretty well. I've used that for loading maps, or associative arrays, from ftext files. It's a pretty simple and robust way to do it.

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thanks a lot for your quick replies, guys!



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