Using a `#` char in a `File` Reference on a network drive cuts the `nativePath` / `url` before the `#`

[2jfw]

When pointing to a file on a network drive, which contains a # character in the file path or filename and when the reference begins with file:////, nativePath and url will be cut right before the #.

Attached below is a sample where this can be reproduced:

package
{

	import flash.display.Sprite;
	import flash.filesystem.File;
	import flash.filesystem.FileMode;
	import flash.filesystem.FileStream;
	import flash.utils.ByteArray;


	public class HashtagInFileNameIssue extends Sprite
	{
		public function HashtagInFileNameIssue()
		{
			// "networkDrive.com" is a placeholder for an existing network drive, which you can access via Explorer (\\networkDrive.com)
			var filename1 : String = "file:////networkDrive.com/test/Hash File ! 123.txt"; // will work
			var filename2 : String = "file:////networkDrive.com/test/Hash File # 123.txt"; // will not work. File nativePath/url will be cut before "#"
			var filename3 : String = "\\\\networkDrive.com/test/Hash File # 123.txt"; // will work


			var valueToSave : String = "test";


			// Write to file
			var byteArray : ByteArray = new ByteArray();
			byteArray.writeUTFBytes(valueToSave);

			var newFile : File          = new File(filename2);
			var fileStream : FileStream = new FileStream();
			fileStream.open(newFile,
			                FileMode.WRITE);

			fileStream.writeBytes(byteArray);
			fileStream.close();
		}
	}
}

For filename2 :

file.nativePath will be: \\networkDrive.com\test\Hash File file.url will be file:////networkDrive.com/test/Hash%20File%20

Having a folder name with a # will cut the name of the folder in the same manner.

Assumption: I could imagine that the file://// will somehow trigger some kind of URI/URL parsing attempt where the # hashtag indicates something like an Anchor (HTML?) and gets ignored or cut. I'm not sure if this is working as intended.

[KarlSchumann]

Running into this too. We load local HTML and us anchor tags to scroll the user to a specific section.

if (dir.exists) {
	loadReference( paragraphReference);
}

protected function loadReference(bookmark:String):void
{
	// If a reference window is already open, close it.
	if (_refWindow !== null && _refWindow.initialized && !_refWindow.closed) {
		_refWindow.close();
	}
	
	var dir:File =  File.applicationDirectory;
	dir = dir.resolvePath("assets");
	dir = dir.resolvePath("html");
	dir = dir.resolvePath(courseIdentifier);
	dir = dir.resolvePath(referenceFileName);

	// Open a new reference window
	_refWindow = new HTMLWindow();
	_refWindow.title = "HTML";
	
	if((Capabilities.os.indexOf("Windows") >= 0)) {
		_refWindow.bookmark = bookmark;
	}

	_refWindow.htmlFilePath = refUrl;
	_refWindow.open();
}

On Mac the _refWindow.bookmark causes it to load a white screen