Database Search
TechHome
 |
- Launch Accessibility Props Check if MouseKey is On
- Launch App and Get Process ID Handle
- Launch Exe after Period of Inactivity
- Launch INF Files
- Launch Task Scheduler
- Launch Winbatch on a Remote PC
- Launch WinBatch with List of WBT Files
- Launch WinBatch with Parameters from a File
- Launching an app and passing a file
- Launching EXEs with Hotkeys
- Pass Parms to WBT while in WB Studio
- Prevent more than one WB Copy from Being Run
- RemoteRun wbt - User Sample
- Run a Winbatch File from within Access97
- Run a Winbatch Job from a Scheduler
- Run Once Every Time System is Restarted
- Run only Once a Day Regardless of Reboot
- Running a WB.EXE from IE
- Running Several Instances of a Script
- Running WB from VB
- Running WB on a DEC ALPHA
- Running Winbatch on a Remote Workstation
- Use Run Commands on Strings with Quotes Spaces
- Winbatch with Tivoli
- Zoom an App when Launched
Can't find the information you are looking for here? Then leave a message over on our WinBatch Tech Support Forum.
Using the Run Commands on Parameter String with Spaces and/or Quote Marks
Keywords: Parsing Quotes Spaces quote marks
Question:
How do I use the RunWait Command on a parameter string that has spaces in it? It doesn't seem to parse it correctly.I am trying to execute an email program (Pegasus Mail v2.4 for Windows ) from its command line with various switches. This is so a user can email me automatically from within a WinBatch EXE as part of an error-handling routine.
I want the mail program to mail me with a subject line, but this must enclosed in double quotation marks on the command line after the switch -s, eg
WINPMAIL.EXE -t my_email_address -s "Subject string"** Can WinBatch handle this in the Run or RunWait functions ? Because otherwise it will report an error as it sees an invalid number of arguments to these commands. Can I somehow "escape" the quote marks inside the command line parameters I give to the Run or RunWait command ? **
Answer:
Just use a different kind of quote. Winbatch recogizes all three: " ` '
Just start and stop each string with the same kind. Then you can embed the others in it. You can surround the parameter string with double quotes, and change the outside quotes in the Run statement to single quotes, as in:
name_of_user = "John Doe"
runwait('setup','xx yy /t:"%name_of_user%"')
Another example:
Run('winpmail.exe', '-t my_email_address -s "subject string"')
And another:
run("Excel.exe", '"c:\My Documents\2 eftproc.xls"')
Article ID: W13281
Filename: Use Run Commands on Strings with Quotes Spaces.txt
File Created: 1999:06:09:11:57:26
Last Updated: 1999:06:09:11:57:26