#1338: Rename Carpet output files -----------------------+---------------------------------------------------- Reporter: eschnett | Owner: eschnett Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component: Carpet | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: -----------------------+----------------------------------------------------
Comment (by rhaas):
Beyond Windows and OSX there are also a number of Unix tools that don't like colons (or other "unusual" characters in file names). VisIt is somewhat prominent in that it will interpret a file name with a colon as a remote file and one has to explicitly prefix such files with "localhost :/<PATH-TO-FILE>/" to make it happy. Getting this to work with python scrips and the conn_cmfe operator can be a bit of a a headache.
Finally (unrelated) using colon in HDF5 dataset names is a bad idea as well since this is not quite in line with the HDF5 docs (http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/UG/10_Datasets.html : "A dataset name is a sequence of alphanumeric ASCII characters") and eg. xdmf is very unhappy about the colons.
So offering a means to replace offending characters by eg "_" or "-" or "" would be helpful.