: * problems with Sys.Exec

[goroyoshi]

Turing:

var filename : string get filename : * if not Sys.Exec (filename) then     put "Error, " ..     put Error.LastMsg end if

why won't it let me put spaces for this? and is there a way to put spaces here

[Zren]

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 ("").

[goroyoshi]

but while using variables?

[Tony]

The variable is fine

code:

var filename : string get filename : * put filename

but commands are delimited by whitespace, so it's not valid to have spaces in filenames.

[goroyoshi]

some of my folders have spaces, so this will be a problem

[DemonWasp]

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.

[Raknarg]

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.

[goroyoshi]

quotes worked thank you

+1 karma to Zren