How to use RUN with ampersand character

[thia...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I use the RUN command a lot to call external command line tools

Example (this works fine):

rcmd="c:\test programs\program.exe"

run &rcmd.

But I have a problem calling a command line tool when there is an ampersand in the path name :

Example (this does NOT work):

rcmd="c:\cli & tests\program.exe"

run &rcmd.

I get an error that "c:\cli" can not be foudnd because of the ampersand  ...

How can run a program with a full path that has a ampersand ("&" in it ??

Thank you in advance

[KennyOoi]

try this

rcmd="c:\cli & tests\program.exe"

hb_run( rcmd )

[José M. C. Quintas]

Do not use macro, when do not need it.

Sometimes macro is anything like recursive.

run ( "c:\cli & tests\program.exe" )


José M. C. Quintas

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