Error:the filename directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect, in Delphi 7 CopyFile Function
I want to copy files from one folder to another using CopyFile function. The source files paths are stored in a ClientDataSet called "itemsDB". The code is :
Var Source, Dest : String;
Begin
itemsDB.First;
While Not itemsDB.EOF do
Begin
Source := itemsDB.FieldValues['FileN'];
Dest := 'C:\NewDir\'+ExtractFileName(Source);
if Not CopyFile(PChar(Source), PChar(Dest), False) then
Showmessage(SysErrorMessage(getlasterror()));
itemsDB.开发者_如何转开发Next;
end;
end
When I execute the code, I get the error message "the filename directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect". I verfied all the files paths in the DataSet, they're correct. In my example, my clientdataset contains two JPG images "c:\test1.jpg" and "c:\test2.jpg" When I tried source := 'c:\test1.jpg', it works perfectly, but when I get it from the clientdataset, it fails.
Thanks in advance
Updated answer...
(As recommended...)
After some discussion in the comments field, the error was discovered to be invalid trailing space characters in the Source
string.
If the FileN
field is defined as a FixedChar
string field, the Source
will include these trailing spaces.
Set FixedChar
to False
in the object inspector, or remove the trailing space characters with Source := Trim(Source);
Could you log the values of FileName and Dest to see exactly what is being passed to CopyFile?
Also, it looks like you are not using Source but rather FileName, which doesn't appear to be defined anywhere in the code fragment you posted. Did you mean to use Source?
You will get this error if you have a :
as a part of path in Source
.
You may have one of course like in c:\
but c:\Test:Folder\Text.txt
will give you the error The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect
.
Edit 1 Another invalid character is ?. I do not know if you use Unicode in Delphi or if your source of data is Unicode but sometimes unknown Unicode characters gets translated to ?.
Edit 2 Spaces before the drive letter in source will also give you the same error.
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