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Re: SPAWN and strings [message #73372 is a reply to message #73367]

Fri, 05 November 2010 07:53

Heinz Stege
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Registered: January 2003

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On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 03:49:53 -0700 (PDT), Ludo wrote:

> I'm running IDL 7.1 on Windows XP SP2
> I tried this in the command line (cmd.exe) :
>
>> "C:\Program Files\myDir\myProg.exe" "C:\directory name with spaces\myFile.h5"
>
> It works.
>
> When I try the same command with SPAWN, it doesn't work. (I put spaces
> around ' and " for an easy reading, in my command there aren't any
> spaces.)
>
> SPAWN, ' "C:\Program Files\myDir\myProg.exe" "C:\directory name with
> spaces\myFile.h5" '
>
> It tries to lauch C:\Program, just like there weren't any quotes
> ( " ). I have the impression that SPAWN can't handle more than two "
> in a string. Why ?
>
> As expected, if my working directory is "C:\directory name with
> spaces", the following instruction works perfectly :
>
> SPAWN, ' "C:\Program Files\myDir\myProg.exe" myFile.h5'
>
> This one fails :
>
> SPAWN, ' "C:\Program Files\myDir\myProg.exe" "myFile.h5" '
>
> Did I miss something ? Some trick in strings management ?
>

Does it work, to write the 2nd filename without any quotes:
SPAWN,'"C:\Program Files\myDir\myProg.exe" C:\directory name with
spaces\myFile.h5'

On my windows
spawn,'"C:\Program Files\IrfanView\i_view32.exe" D:\my dir\my
photo.jpg'
is working.

Can't eyplain why. It is windows. ;-)

HTH, Heinz

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		Re: SPAWN and strings By: Ludo on Fri, 05 November 2010 08:45
		Re: SPAWN and strings By: Ludo on Fri, 05 November 2010 08:37
		Re: SPAWN and strings By: Heinz Stege on Fri, 05 November 2010 07:53
		Re: SPAWN and strings By: KRDean on Fri, 05 November 2010 07:46
		Re: SPAWN and strings By: Ludo on Fri, 05 November 2010 07:45
		Re: SPAWN and strings By: David Fanning on Fri, 05 November 2010 07:22

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