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Re: system() and nested quotes

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Jun 03, 2005
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Jerry Story wrote:

> When I type this on the command line
>
> mozilla "www.mozilla.org"
>
> it works. It fires up Mozilla and gets the web page.
>
> The problem is how to do that with system()
>
> Like this?
> system("mozilla "www.mozilla.org"",2)
>
> Doesn't work.
>
> What do you do with nested quotes?

All quotes except of the outermost must be escaped:

system("mozilla \"www.mozilla.org\"", 2)

see http://www.rapideuphoria.com/refman_2.htm#char

Regards,
   Juergen