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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2000
Edward Doutre, Cary, NC (US);
John Christian Fluke, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for replacing substrings in file and directory pathnames with numeric tokens. A name string to be converted is first read; the current working directory and name string are canonicalized to form a pathname containing the substrings. The pathname is parsed and each substring is searched in a string dictionary to locate a corresponding numeric token. The string dictionary that is created associates token values with substrings, so that there is a one-to-one correspondence. The returned list of tokens for the parsed pathname are validated through a lookup process in a directory table. If the parsed pathname is successfully validated, the tokens are then used in subsequent file operations such as create, delete, open, rename and compare files.