Read Encoding

[Casey]

Hello,

I'm stuck, again. I'm not grasping why FileGetEncoding works on one folders contents and not others. Why it works partly on one system (The best I've seen) and on other systems it fails on any file. Likely I've made a mistake and probably I'm lucky it is working at all. I have a problem in that the only way I can search for a file is to identify it by its file name because people have named the file differently on many systems and they have even tampered with the file extension.

So I thought to see if it had any unique file encoding value that set itself apart from the rest of the files in the folder. As luck would have it, that has turned out to be the case; well, it looks that way because on the couple of systems that this works on, it is returned as 2048 and the other files are a mix of other encoding options. I just don't know where to go from here since the results are hit an miss and I have about 400 systems I need to do a software upgrade on. That upgrade requires me to backup and restore configuration files that are important to registers working. Here is what I have so far, nothing fancy. Any insight would be appreciated. I struggle to read behind the lines so I may not have inferred something from the help file correctly.

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#RequireAdmin
#include <Array.au3>
#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>

;Local $aArray_Base[1][2] = [["File Name","Encoding"]]

Local $aArray_Base[0][2]

    ;_ArrayDisplay($aArray_Base, "2D - Base array")


; Change working directory and FileSelectFolder doesn't change working directory on its own or leave it set if it does

FileChangeDir ( FileSelectFolder ( "Select Folder", "C:\" ))


; Define a variable to hold a search "handle" as we loop through the files in a directory

$FileSearch = FileFindFirstFile(@WorkingDir & "\*.*")

            ; Check if the search was successful
            If $FileSearch = -1 Then
                MsgBox(0, "Error", "No files/directories matched the search pattern")
                Exit
            EndIf

            ;A while loop where we identify each file in the directory, then read and get its file encoding, and then push the file name and encodinng into an arry

            While 1
                $AFile = FileFindNextFile($FileSearch)
                If @error Then ExitLoop
                ;Exclude some known directory names that should not be terminal file names
                If $AFile == "backup" Or $AFile == "log" Or $AFile == "OUT" Or $AFile == "TR" Then
            Else

                    ;Get encoding of file
                    $AFile_Encoding = FileGetEncoding ( "C:\CRS\" & $AFile)

                    ;Pass file and and encoding $result to a variable
                    $sFill = $AFile & '|' & $AFile_Encoding

                    ;Use that variable to add data to the array
                    _ArrayAdd($aArray_Base, $sFill)

                EndIf
            WEnd

            ; Close the search handle
            FileClose($FileSearch)

; Display the results to see what was found.
_ArrayDisplay($aArray_Base, "2D - Base array")

; On a few systems this will return an array with file encodings

; On many systems this will return a list of file names but encoding is all -1

; I do not understand encoding enough to understand why the latter happens

; The systems where this works the most have AutoIt installed so I don't

; Know if that has any bearing. Even on those systems it only works on

; a handful of folders, not all. Why would that be? 

; Antivirus is disabled and it was compiled as an admin and run as an admin.

 

[jchd]

Can you post an example file where FileGetEncoding fails?

Which AutoIt version do you use?

Also beware of comparing strings with == instead of = (see help).

Edited July 23, 2016 by jchd

[Casey]

Because I was having problems reading anything, I downloaded the current stable and beta from the site today and re-installed. My testing has been on current stable.

As far as posting an example file, that's a broad ask in that I could post any file. I've got one directory I can read files one one system and the same directory on another system returns all -1. On the same system that could read the directory, if I try another directory, I get all -1.

In my understanding, or expectation if you will, I should be able to select any folder on a Windows system provided I have read rights and this would return me an array of encodings for file in the folder. If you test 10 folders across your system and find that they all work; Say some from program files, some folder hanging off root, then you're lucky. I cannot. With such a broad range of failures, I am left thinking that something is left out during execution. Like, the FileGetEncoding code isn't available each time it is run from the editor and isn't making its way into the compiled executable even though I select include all UDFs.

I've tried this on SVR 2008R2, Win8.1, Win7 with the same results. I will change the == to see if that is creating a side effect.

Thanks for the feedback. Worth a try.

[Casey]

And then the light came on. Your note caused me to see my immediate failing. A hard coded path from initial testing. Grrr. I will test and return results in a couple of minutes. Humbled.

[Casey]

Yes, the hard coded path reading the encoding was it. Sorry, to have wasted your time.

[jchd]

Don't worry, help forum is for asking and getting help. What's important is that the solution finally pops up.