Bug 186244 - [WorkbenchLauncher] Eclipse does not recognize hash mark (#)
Summary: [WorkbenchLauncher] Eclipse does not recognize hash mark (#)
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 3109
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Runtime (show other bugs)
Version: 3.2.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: platform-runtime-inbox CLA
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: 306688 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2007-05-09 16:05 EDT by Ben Tran CLA
Modified: 2011-08-22 09:18 EDT (History)
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Description Ben Tran CLA 2007-05-09 16:05:22 EDT 
Build ID: M20070212-1330

Steps To Reproduce:
1.  Create a new workspace i.e C:\eclipse_3.2.2\workspace\user#2

Result:  Eclipse creates C:\eclipse_3.2.2\workspace\user
instead of C:\eclipse_3.2.2\workspace\user#2

2.  Create a new workspace i.e 
C:\eclipse_3.2.2\workspace\test2\#2user

Result: Eclipse creates the .metadata direcotry in 
C:\eclipse_3.2.2\workspace\test2 instead of
C:\eclipse_3.2.2\workspace\test2\#2user



More information:
Comment 1 Alex Blewitt CLA 2007-05-09 18:06:48 EDT 
Sounds likely. The path is probably translated to a URL, where anything after the # is considered not part of the path. The # should really be encoded with % escaping. If you replaced # with %23 in the workspace field, does that work?

Alex.
Comment 2 Kim Horne CLA 2007-05-10 13:30:02 EDT 
Oddly enough, we're not using an URL here - we're simply pumping the string into the java.io.File() constructor.
Comment 3 Susan McCourt CLA 2009-07-15 12:38:03 EDT 
"As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009"
Comment 4 Boris Bokowski CLA 2009-11-26 16:33:37 EST 
Prakash is now responsible for watching bugs in the [WorkbenchLauncher] component area.
Comment 5 Prakash Rangaraj CLA 2010-05-25 02:55:52 EDT 
*** Bug 306688 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Prakash Rangaraj CLA 2010-05-25 03:45:13 EDT 
While adjusting for the trailing slash in org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.LocationHelper.adjustTrailingSlash() method, the spec part after the # is eaten up. 

Moving for Platform Runtime.
Comment 7 Szymon Ptaszkiewicz CLA 2011-08-22 09:18:42 EDT 
This is a known issue and documented in the README that is shipped with the
SDK. See also bug 312772.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 3109 ***