Computer Science Canada : * problems with Sys.Exec |
| Author: | goroyoshi [ Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:33 pm ] | ||
| Post subject: | : * problems with Sys.Exec | ||
why won't it let me put spaces for this? and is there a way to put spaces here |
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| Author: | Zren [ Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:: * problems with Sys.Exec |
Open up Command Prompt and type a filename with spaces. It'll error out. In order to do that you need to surround the filename with quotes (""). |
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| Author: | goroyoshi [ Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:: * problems with Sys.Exec |
but while using variables? |
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| Author: | Tony [ Thu Apr 07, 2011 7:26 pm ] | ||
| Post subject: | RE:: * problems with Sys.Exec | ||
The variable is fine
but commands are delimited by whitespace, so it's not valid to have spaces in filenames. |
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| Author: | goroyoshi [ Fri Apr 08, 2011 11:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | RE:: * problems with Sys.Exec |
some of my folders have spaces, so this will be a problem |
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| Author: | DemonWasp [ Fri Apr 08, 2011 12:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:: * problems with Sys.Exec |
In Windows, there's a way to specify a folder name that has spaces in it without including spaces in the path. In fact, there are two ways. First, you can put double-quotes around the path. Some programs that do naive parsing have a problem with this, wherein they ignore the quotes, or worse, decide that the quotes are part of the path. Second, you can use the "short form" of a file name, as these are guaranteed to never contain spaces, and uniquely determine a longer "user-friendly" file name. To find out the short form, you can use dir /x in the parent directory, assuming you know the path ahead of time. Using this strategy, "C:\Program Files\" becomes "C:\PROGRA~1\". If you don't know the path ahead of time, you can't really use this approach. |
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| Author: | Raknarg [ Fri Apr 08, 2011 3:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:: * problems with Sys.Exec |
If the file you're calling is in the same folder as the turing save, you should only need to put the name of that file. |
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| Author: | goroyoshi [ Sat Apr 09, 2011 2:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:: * problems with Sys.Exec |
quotes worked thank you +1 karma to Zren |
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