Re: running another program with system / system_exec
- Posted by useless_ Oct 01, 2013
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Hi
I have this :
A long\path name\with spaces\to an\executable.exe
that I want to load
A long\path name\with spaces\to a\graphic_file
with
How do I do this with system and system_exec balking at the spaces.
If I do
'"'A long\path name\with spaces\to an\executable.exe'"'
then the program loads
but when I try to add the file I want it to load, nothing happens, ie
'"'A long\path name\with spaces\to an\executable.exe A long\path name\with spaces\to a\graphic_file'"'
Do I somehow have to quote the file_to_load?
Chris
I quote everything, separately, and quote the spaces between the elements of the command. I also found it's sometimes best to build a complete string, and pass that to system_exec(), at least that way you can puts the string and see if it is what you exected. Worst case, like dealing with Privoxy, i write a .bat file and exec that.
savefile = current_dir() & "\\wget\\tmp.txt" system("del " & savefile,2) junk = system_exec(current_dir() & "\\wget\\wget.exe --connect-timeout=20 --read-timeout=20 -T10 -A txt,html,htm -qO "&savefile&" "&filename,2)
If the lines are really long, you may hit a line length limit in dos.
useless
