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Myths programmers believe about file paths

6 pointsby chei0aiVover 9 years ago

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daeminover 9 years ago
&quot;File paths cannot contain whitespace&quot;<p>That reminds me of the article (I thought it way Raymond Chen, but it&#x27;s actually from Larry Osterman) about passwords being allowed to have whitespace.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com&#x2F;larryosterman&#x2F;2008&#x2F;06&#x2F;03&#x2F;news-flash-spaces-are-legal-characters-in-both-filenames-and-passwords&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com&#x2F;larryosterman&#x2F;2008&#x2F;06&#x2F;03&#x2F;ne...</a>