Cant Access Folders with Spaces in the name

[daking]

I am having a slight problem. On trying to access a file at a directory I am getting a error. It only happens if a folder in the directory has in a space in the name.
eg system("C:/folder name/edd.exe");

This would give me an error. I tried placing a backslash before the space to no avail. Any help is appreciated.

[Disch]

system() is like launching a separate command prompt and typing whatever you pass to it to that prompt.

If you try to run cmd and type in C:/folder name/edd.exe it will fail, because cmd will treat "C:/folder" as the command and "name/edd.exe" as a parameter for that command.

Rather than try to come up with a solution to the problem -- the real problem here is that you shouldn't be using system().

If you're trying to launch a separate program on Windows, ShellExecute() is a better alternative.

[stahta01]

I would remove the space from the path; but, if you can not try fixing it.

A couple of guesses are:

system("\"C:/folder name/edd.exe\"");
system("""C:/folder name/edd.exe""");

Tim S.

[Disch]

system("""C:/folder name/edd.exe""");

"""triple quotes""" are a PHP thing and have no special meaning in C++.

using the \" escape sequence will solve the space problem but I'm pretty sure they will make it so that's not a valid command. Remember it's like typing that into cmd, so if it doesn't work when you type it into cmd it won't work when you send it to system().

[daking]

what would the ShellExecute() instruction look like for my example?