# Aider chat conversation:
USER: I just tried aider on a project where the folder names have spaces, and it has an issue parsing the diffs.
For example:
```diff
--- PRAW and URS Reddit Scraping/Classify.py
+++ PRAW and URS Reddit Scraping/Classify.py
@@ ... @@
def classify(filename:str, model: str = 'gpt-3.5-turbo-1106'):
d = json.load(open(filename))
for post in d['fetched_posts']:
messages = copy(MESSAGE_TEMPLATE_CLASSIFY)
...
```
Gives:
```Allow creation of new file PRAW? y```
Which is not correct, a new file is not being created here.
ASSISTANT: To address the issue with folder names containing spaces, we need to update the `find_diffs` function in `udiff_coder.py` to correctly parse file paths that include spaces. The current implementation seems to split the file path on spaces, which leads to incorrect behavior when folder or file names contain spaces.
Here's the diff with the necessary changes:
```diff
--- aider/coders/udiff_coder.py
+++ aider/coders/udiff_coder.py
@@ ... @@
def find_diffs(content):
# We can always use triple-quotes, because all the udiff content
# is prefixed with +/-/space.
if not content.endswith("\n"):
content = content + "\n"
lines = content.splitlines(keepends=True)
line_num = 0
edits = []
while line_num < len(lines):
while line_num < len(lines):
line = lines[line_num]
if line.startswith("```diff"):
line_num, these_edits = process_fenced_block(lines, line_num + 1)
edits += these_edits
break
line_num += 1
# For now, just take 1!
# edits = edits[:1]
return edits
def process_fenced_block(lines, start_line_num):
for line_num in range(start_line_num, len(lines)):
line = lines[line_num]
if line.startswith("```"):
break
block = lines[start_line_num:line_num]
block.append("@@ @@")
- if block[1].startswith("+++ "):
- fname = block[1].split()[1]
+ if block[1].startswith("--- ") and block[2].startswith("+++ "):
+ # Extract the file path, considering that it might contain spaces
+ fname = block[1][4:].strip()
+ # Ensure that the file path is the same for both the original and new file
+ assert fname == block[2][4:].strip(), "File paths in diff headers do not match"
block = block[2:]
else:
fname = None
edits = []
keeper = False
hunk = []
op = " "
for line in block:
hunk.append(line)
if len(line) < 2:
continue
op = line[0]
if op in "-+":
keeper = True
continue
if op != "@":
continue
if not keeper:
hunk = []
continue
hunk = hunk[:-1]
edits.append((fname, hunk))
hunk = []
return line_num + 1, edits
@@ ... @@
```
This change ensures that the file path is correctly extracted from the diff headers, even if it contains spaces. It also adds an assertion to check that the file paths for the original and new files match, which is a common requirement in diffs.
