You aren't, but for the sake of demonstration, and so as to not confuse the
target audience by making them think that merge is part of the principle being
demonstrated, i used literals.
Bob
On May 23, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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
>>>>>
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