Posted by "Satyam" on 08/04/05 20:06

""Mark Rees"" <mrees@itsagoodprice.com> wrote in message
news:37.06.04646.FB1D1F24@pb1.pair.com...
> "Tom Chubb" <tomchubb@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4577934f05080401142d97de96@mail.gmail.com...
> This may be slightly OT, but I've modified a gallery script that I had
> written for me which reads directories and echos the dir name as a
> gallery.
> Unfortunately, it doesn't look very nice with say picsofsomething so I
> renamed the folder 'pics of something'
> When this is read, the string inserts %20 for the spaces, which is
> fine, but are there any reasons why I shouldn't be doing this?
> Many thanks,
>
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>
> A while back, this would have been liable to cause problems in Netscape
> (v3/4). I don't think it makes so much difference these days, but I just
> avoid it out of habit. You can get a more readable effect wihout spaces by
> using an underscore, say, in the directory name, and when you need to
> print
> it to screen, replace the underscores with spaces
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> Tom
Wasn't the plus sign the replacement for a space? Pics+of+something is more
readable.

Satyam

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