Another Comspec question

[fmen]

Run ( @Comspec & ' /c "D:\Vis.stw"', '', @SW_HIDE ) Works fine.

$Drive = StringLeft(@ScriptDir, 1)

Run ( @Comspec & ' /c $Drive & ":\Vis.stw"', '', @SW_HIDE )

This does not!

MsgBox(4096,"control", $Drive) gives me the correct drive letter "D"

What am I doing wrong?

Do I have some , or ' or " or ( or ) in the wrong place? I've tried every combination possible. Thanks

[cramaboule]

Run ( @Comspec & ' /c "D:\Vis.stw"', '', @SW_HIDE ) Works fine.

$Drive = StringLeft(@ScriptDir, 1)

Run ( @Comspec & ' /c $Drive & ":\Vis.stw"', '', @SW_HIDE )

This does not!

MsgBox(4096,"control", $Drive) gives me the correct drive letter "D"

What am I doing wrong?

Do I have some , or ' or " or ( or ) in the wrong place? I've tried every combination possible. Thanks

Try:

Run ( @Comspec & " /c" & chr(34)& $Drive & chr(34)& ":\Vis.stw", '', @SW_HIDE )

or some thing like that...

Edited July 30, 2007 by cramaboule

[Richard Robertson]

The problem was that the second time, you had the string

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[Richard Robertson]

I'm sorry

' /c "' & $Drive & ':\Vis.stw"'

is what you want.

I would have edited the post, but I got a weird error.

[fmen]

Good Lord, they work!!

Thanks so much to the both of you....

How you keep all those " and ' and &'s straight, I don't know.

[Richard Robertson]

When you work with strings enough, you learn your apostrophes. It's just experience.

[cramaboule]

Good Lord, they work!!

Thanks so much to the both of you....

How you keep all those " and ' and &'s straight, I don't know.

You mean... How to use them ?

Well, look to the help, but basically the & is used to add your variable to a string

$var = 123

$myvariable = "text" & $var

$myvariable will be :

text123

the " well,... to delimit your text, string,...

the ' I never used it...