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Saving with a non-GPX extension does strange things - Maarten - 12.02.2017
While testing I came across this strange behaviour: when you save to a GPX file with a non-gpx extension, everything after the last . (dot) gets removed and then .gpx is added.
So if you do save as, save as gpx (1.0 or 1.1), use filename "test-2.19-1", it will get saved as "test-2.gpx". I would have expected "test-2.19-1.gpx".
If you enter "test-2.19-1.gpx" as filename, it will get saved as "test-2.19-1.gpx".
RE: Saving with a non-GPX extension does strange things - routeconverter - 19.02.2017
(12.02.2017, 15:19)Maarten Wrote: While testing I came across this strange behaviour: when you save to a GPX file with a non-gpx extension, everything after the last . (dot) gets removed and then .gpx is added.
Dear Maarten,
that behaviour is intended to avoid that users save files and omit the extension.
(12.02.2017, 15:19)Maarten Wrote: So if you do save as, save as gpx (1.0 or 1.1), use filename "test-2.19-1", it will get saved as "test-2.gpx". I would have expected "test-2.19-1.gpx".
That's a side effect that could only be omitted if the check for a valid extension could determine more precisely what to cut off.