How to escape ")"?

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#1

Well,

I had to change a server’s password and created one that has a right parentheses in it = “)”.

As I changed things around to fit the new password I realized I had an AppleScript with this line

mount volume “afp://:<password_that_contains_)>@192.168.10.200”

Well, it doesn’t work, as, it seems AS interprets the sentence as

mount volume "afp://:<password_that_contains_)

I just can’t find an escape character that works. I tried , and it doesn’t work.

I managed to make it acceptable as a variable value

set ThePassword to “password_that_contains_)”

but it seems that I can’t use a variable in a sentence like

mount volume “afp://:ThePassword>@192.168.10.200”

Perhaps I could try to pass the password in a dialog box, but my knowledge of AS is rather limited.

Any help will be welcome.

Mario Jorge Passos

#2

Hi Mario,

to avoid unexpected behaviour it’s not recommended to use filenames and passwords including special characters,
especially on file servers. Anyway, there is no way to escape a parenthesis (actually there is no need to) but you can put
almost everything into a variable in AppleScript

For example:

set user_name to "u_n"
set pass_word to "(p_w)"
set file_server to "1.2.3.4"
set server_volume to "myVolume"
set s to "afp://" & user_name & ":" & pass_word & "@" & file_server & "/" & server_volume
try
tell application "Finder" to mount volume s -- works better with targetting the Finder
end try
#3

Stefan, tks for your reply. I am trying to avoid changing the password as I will have to change it in several places. As the world is full of script kiddies trying to invade servers, I tried to make the password as hard to break as possbile.

Bad news: your solution doesn’t work. I removed the “tries” and got "The volume was not found. How do I output the value of “s” in the above example?

regards,

Mario

#4

write just before the mount volume line:

display dialog s

Does the volume appear generally in Finder’s sidebar > Network?
On my machine the code works

#5

I don’t manage to connect to the server. the “display dialog s” shows the proper value for s. But I get.

Finder got an error: Disk wasn’t found.

On the other hand if I try to connect manually the server is there as well the share. I believe that changing the password will be way out. :-/

regards,

Mario