Unformatted OS Command Value

[Phillip]

Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to run an OS-Command to open a file but when it copies the file name over it is cutting it off once it reaches any special characters. For example assume the below:

def var filepath as char no-undo.

filepath = "\\nas\company\drawings\product(x).pdf".

os-command silent value(filepath).

What I am getting as the os-command is "\\nas\company\drawings\product". Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

 

[TheMadDBA]

If you have spaces or special characters you need to put quotes around those portions of the file path. So in this exact case:

filepath = "\\nas\company\drawings\~"product(x).pdf~"".

 

[Phillip]

Do you know how I could systematically do this? I am having the file location dump to a variable in an app and then I need to be able to run it when passed to an OS-Command. Can the tilde be put at the beginning of the strand somehow?

 

[TheMadDBA]

Nothing easy that I know of when you use OS-COMMAND. Even quoting the entire file name doesn't seem to work (at least on some versions of Windows).

You might have better luck using ShellExecuteA since I am assuming you just want to launch the associated handler.

http://knowledgebase.progress.com/articles/Article/P14886