OT: How does Windows handle spaces in program names?

[Bob Sneidar]

You aren't, but for the sake of demonstration, and so as to not confuse the target audience by making them think that merge is part of the principle being demonstrated, i used literals. 

Bob


On May 23, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:

> 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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