OT: How does Windows handle spaces in program names?

[Mike Bonner]

I must be the only one who uses 'the shortfilepath'  to avoid all this?

Though while we're at it, this works too.
put merge("[[quote]]C:\Documents and Settings\myprofile\Desktop\My App
Name.exe[[quote]]") into theFilePath

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:

> Aye. It's the ole Readability vs. Compactness conundrum.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On May 23, 2011, at 3:27 PM, Roger Eller wrote:
>
> > 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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