On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, John Rose wrote: > I have written a GUI to execute a command which involves selecting > filenames (e.g. sCombinedPath below) to be used in a Shell command > (as part of a Process). It works OK generally. However, if any > filename includes a quote, it goes wrong. > > sCommand = "mplex -f 8 -o " & "'" & sCombinedPath & "' " & > "'" & sVideoPath & "' " & > "'" & sAudioPath & "' " & > ">/dev/null 2>'" & sLogFilename & "'" > Print sCommand > hProcess = Shell sCommand > > I read about using the Shell$ command to create a quoted string but > I couldn't make that work. I've also tried a Replace$ command to > replace a quote by a backslash followed by a quote. I couldn't get > that to work.
Use it like sCommand = "mplex ... " & Shell$(sCombinedPath) & etc. This will result in mplex ... /path/with/\"quotes\" which is totally valid. But then you must not enclose the path within '' single quotes. Regards, Tobi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
