OT: How does Windows handle spaces in program names?

[Roger Eller]

or... to keep it as a one liner...

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

˜Roger


On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:

> 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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