Alastair
I tried your DELETE command and it seemed to work, but the documentaion says
to use ERASE for getting rid of files. DELETE is a SQL command for getting
rid or rows in tables and so on...
With the ERASE command the single quote method seems to work flawlessly...
that is with my revised code.. I had sent some bad code the first time
through...
Maybe this depends on a persons QUOTE setting... Are you using a double-quote
instead of a single-quote as your database default for the QUOTES setting?
Interesting.
Jim
--- Alastair Burr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jim,
>
> I don't know if it helps or if you know already and it doesn't work for what
> you're trying to do but double quotes around the path/filename should
> resolve the problem:
>
> set var vFileName text = ' " d:\blah blah blah\blah.fle " '
> del .vFileName
>
> works in RBW6.5 under W98 (I've left spaces around the quotes to try and
> make them stand out more).
>
> Regards, Alastair.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Limburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 7:07 PM
> Subject: Re: Win2k - (ENVVAL('TEMP')) and spaces in this setting --
> warning/headsup/solution
>
>
> > I apologize, there was a good boo-boo in the code I had earlier.
> > Here is the corrected version.
> >
> > SET VAR vm_temp TEXT = NULL
> > SET VAR vm_temp = (ENVVAL('TEMP'))
> > IF vm_temp IS NOT NULL THEN
> > --This will store temp files in Windows/Temp directory on a Win98
> machine
> > --On NT or 2000 it will be in the WINNT/TEMP dir or depending on how
> > --security is set up it could be defined like:
> > --C:\Documents and Settings\jlimburg.TCORPNT1\Local Settings\Temp
> > --This presents a problem because it has a space in the line so it
> > --needs to be put between single quotes to work.
> > SET VAR vm_locatespace = (SLOC(.vm_temp,' '))
> > IF vm_locatespace > 0 THEN
> > SET VAR vm_temp1 = ((CHAR(39)) + .vm_temp + (CHAR(39)))
> > SET VAR delfiles TEXT = ('ERASE ' + (CHAR(39)) + .vm_temp + '\' + +
> > '*.$$$' + (CHAR(39)))
> > ELSE
> > SET VAR vm_temp1 = .vm_temp
> > SET VAR delfiles TEXT = ('ERASE ' + .vm_temp + '\' + '*.$$$')
> > ENDIF
> > SET SCRATCH &vm_temp1
> > SET ERROR MESSAGES 2926 OFF
> > SET ERROR MESSAGES 2077 OFF
> > &delfiles
> > SET ERROR MESSAGES 2077 ON
> > SET ERROR MESSAGES 2926 ON
> > ELSE
> > SET SCRATCH ON --This will store temp files in the current directory
> > SET VAR vm_temp = (CVAL('CURRDIR'))
> > SET VAR vm_locatespace = (SLOC(.vm_temp,' '))
> > IF vm_locatespace > 0 THEN
> > SET VAR delfiles TEXT = ('ERASE ' + (CHAR(39)) + .vm_temp + '\' + +
> > '*.$$$' + (CHAR(39)))
> > ELSE
> > SET VAR delfiles TEXT = ('ERASE ' + .vm_temp + '\' + '*.$$$')
> > ENDIF
> > SET ERROR MESSAGES 2926 OFF
> > SET ERROR MESSAGES 2077 OFF
> > &delfiles
> > SET ERROR MESSAGES 2077 ON
> > SET ERROR MESSAGES 2926 ON
> > ENDIF
> > CLEAR VAR vm_%, delfiles
> > SET FILES 60
> >
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