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Re: SPAWN and strings [message #73375 is a reply to message #73374]

Fri, 05 November 2010 07:22

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Ludo writes:

> 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 ?

In IDL, this is a mis-formed command:

IDL> a = "head" "waters"

That's why your last command fails, I think. A valid
string can't be formed.

Cheers,

David

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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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