winscp.com /option value for ReplaceInvalidChars

Hello everyone.

First post. Trying to get my head around WinSCP. I have 2 issues and think its caused by same reason.
Issues:

• issuing lcd c:\folder1\folder2 the \ are being replaced with 2
  ie lcd c:folder12folder2
  
• When a file is downloaded it has first - replaced with %2. But the second - is left!?
  ie my-name-is.txt is downloaded as my%2name-is.txt
  

I think its the ReplaceInvalidChars option for downloads. But I cannot seem to get the option right.

So in my script I have lots of paramaters for userid file name and the folders.
It's the lcd $local that's not working.
$local is c:\folder1\folder2
The get function downloads the file but WinSCP changes the file name.


I hope I have explained the problem well enough for some to offer guidance.
(I got cd around the \" cd $remote\" by putting the folder at the end of the server name used in the $server parameter).

Any help would be awesome. Been on this now for a week.

Cheers all.

The first issue is imo issue of your Perl code. Try your lcd c:\folder1\folder2 on console. It should work. If it does not work in your Perl code that you are not actually passing lcd c:\folder1\folder2 to WinSCP.

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The second issue: Dashes are not replaced. The problem is likely elsewhere. Please attach a full session log file showing the problem (using the latest version of WinSCP).

An update.

Issue now fixed. To answer you reply yes I can change to c:\folder1\folder2 in the WinSCP command line interface. The Perl script must be passing the command as I can see in the log file c:%2folder1%2folder2.

I reported 2 issues.
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[*] To overcome the folder change issue I just added the folder path in the outputfile parameter and that was fixed.
[*] The issue with using \"option transfer rawtransfersettings ReplaceInvalidChars=0\" not working was its location. I was attempting to make it a global setting. This didnt work for me. So I moved into the executing command. Now it works.
Thanks for a very useful application.