OT: How does Windows handle spaces in program names?

[Bob Sneidar]

I may or may not have responded to this, but you cannot simply enclose the program name in quotes for the argument to the shell command, because Livecode will simply interpret whatever is between the quotes and send that. 

Instead, put the path to the app or file you want to work with into a variable, say: 

put "C:\Documents and Settings\myprofile\Desktop\My App Name.exe" into theFilePath

then insert the quotes so that the quotes are actually a part of the contents of the variable like so:
put quote before theFilePath
put quote after theFilePath 

Now shell it out:
put shell(attrib && theFilePath && "+R") into myResult -- assuming you are trying to get the attribute

Does this not work for you?

Bob


On May 23, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Warren Samples wrote:

> On Monday, May 23, 2011 04:27:38 PM Graham Samuel wrote:
>> I tried "My spacious program.exe" since I couldn't see how to introduce a
>> further level of quotes.
> 
> 
> Maybe it just won't work, but did you try to use the single quote char ' ? I don't know if this is valid under 
> Windows, but " and ' are interchangeable in Bash and Livecode lets you use it to quote filepaths etc. within a 
> quoted string, at least here under Linux.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Warren
> 
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