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
