Run Or Runwait Syntax

[doodn 0]

I'm having a hard time understanding syntax on Run or Runwait when using macros or my_variables and would appreciate any guidance or suggestions. I'm sure it has to do with quotes/double quotes, etc. All I want to do is run progressbar.exe (thanks AutoiIt forum!) with source and destination as: D:\Bin\Progressbar.exe "D:\" "%Temp%\abc.tmp". It runs fine from Start | Run, but I cannot seem to get the syntax correct to run it from my script.

$cdr = StringMid(@ScriptDir, 1, 3)

Run($cdr & ' "Bin\progressbar.exe" "$cdr" @TempDir & '\' & "abc.tmp" ', "", @SW_MAXIMIZE)

[Jos 2,110]

Run('"' & $cdr & 'Bin\progressbar.exe" "' & $cdr & '" "' & @TempDir & '\abc.tmp" ', "", @SW_MAXIMIZE)

[doodn 0]

Run('"' & $cdr & 'Bin\progressbar.exe" "' & $cdr & '" "' & @TempDir & '\abc.tmp" ', "", @SW_MAXIMIZE)

Okay, that works like a million dollars

I'm studying what you've done, but it still baffles me. How might one go about learning the rules for the quotes and concatenations? The simple stuff is evident (to me), but this is far more complex (again, to me)... I'll study your code more...

Thank you JdeB!

[Jos 2,110]

Okay, that works like a million dollars

I'm studying what you've done, but it still baffles me. How might one go about learning the rules for the quotes and concatenations? The simple stuff is evident (to me), but this is far more complex (again, to me)... I'll study your code more...

Thank you JdeB!

I use SciTE which helps me to see that the syntax is correct.

as far as the logic is concerned ... its not that difficult:

'this is a string'
"this is a string"
"'this is a single quoted string'"
'"this is a double quoted string"'
'this is a string containing 1 " double quote '
"this is a string containing 1 "" double quote "

Etc ... see the help file for some more details on this...

Edited March 28, 2006 by JdeB