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Use of Shell Function

Started by jai2k , Dec 07 2004 06:16 AM

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#1 jai2k

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Posted 07 December 2004 - 06:16 AM

Hi,

I am using Shell function in VB to open the file.
shell(path of the exe,path&filename)

If the filename has spaces in between , I have a problem because the file name is truncated after spaces.hence the error "File not found"

I can't add Quotes "" before the path of the filename because it is a variable.

Can anyone help pls

Thank you
jai

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#2 LoLucky

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Posted 07 December 2004 - 08:57 AM

Might help some to understand What you are looking for if you post your Code
You can use the Code button to post it correctly

As noted above i'm not sure what you are looking for But you can try

Dim File1 As Double 


File1 = Shell(path,vbNormalFocus)

where path is "C:\Program Files\Som Other File With Spaces\File to Topen.exe"

Hope that helps,

Edited by LoLucky, 07 December 2004 - 09:13 AM.

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Posted 07 December 2004 - 12:57 PM

location = Chr(34) + "C:\Program Files\My Program\Prog.exe" + Chr(34)

file = Chr(34) + Text1.Text + Chr(34)

Shell location + " " + file, vbNormalFocus

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Shell "notepad ""C:\dir with spaces\test.txt""", vbNormalFocus