Shell command problem on Windows 7

[Ralph DiMola]

Peter,

Lose the quotes around the program name and you should be OK

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net


-----Original Message-----
From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf
Of Peter Haworth
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 2:57 PM
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Shell command problem on Windows 7

I have a variable tCommand whose contents are:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin\diff.exe" ....<other stuff>

To clarify, the quote chars are in tCommand

If I execute it with

put shell(tCommand) into temp

... temp contains "'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external
command"

If I copy and paste the contents of tCommand into a Windows Command Prompt
window, it works fine.

It seems like LC is somehow swallowing the quote characters around the
program file name, causing the space after "Program" to be the end of the
program file name.

I'm probably missing something obvious but can't figure out what!


Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
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