Re: apparently valid recutils file created when saved with comma

[Charles Millar]

On 6/30/20 7:06 AM, John Darrington wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 11:59:16AM +0200, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
>       
>       Hi Charles.
>       
>           Recutils version 1.9
>           
>           I inadvertently saved a recutils file as something,rec (something-comma-rec)
>           
>           After a few attempts to print the records using recsel on
>           something-dot-rec, I realized that the file name contained a comma not
>           a dot.
>           
>           So I called recsel on something-comma-rec and the records in the file
>           were printed out. I tried a couple of other operations such as  recfix
>           , and no errors.
>           
>           I would expect an error message such as "Invalid recutils file."
>           
>           This a bug or is there some deep dark secret concerning naming
>           conventions? After all, the manual uses "dot"rec (or "period"rec, if
>           you prefer.)
>           
>       The name of the file is irrelevant to recutils.
>       The utilities will just read and process the file you provide, without
>       looking at the file extension...
>
> I think Charles is complaining about the lack of a warning message when
> recfix is passed the name of a non-existent file.
>
> I think you fixed this bug a few days ago.
>
> J'

Thank you, both. I updated recutils from the repository and confirm that 
there is warning message when I pass a non-existent file. (I thought I 
had updated from the repository in the last couple of days, but 
apparently I did not.)

Very interesting about the file extension.

Charlie