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 <b...@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 <b...@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 > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> use-livecode mailing list > >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > >> subscription preferences: > >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> use-livecode mailing list > >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > >> subscription preferences: > >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode