Declarative script: How to escape 'Program Files (x86)'?

David Aldrich

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Apr 18, 2018, 6:28:29 AM4/18/18

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My declarative script contains:

environment {

VSMSBUILDCMD_14_0 = 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\Common7\\Tools\\VsMSBuildCmd.bat'

VSMSBUILDCMD_14_1 = 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2017\\BuildTools\\Common7\\Tools\\VsMSBuildCmd.bat'

}

<snip>

steps {

bat '''

call "%VSMSBUILDCMD_14_1%"

msbuild <snip>

'''

This results in error:

c:\jenkins\workspace\MyJob>call "%C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\Common7\Tools\VsMSBuildCmd.bat%"

\Java\jre1.8.0_161\bin"" was unexpected at this time.

I think I need to escape ‘Program Files (x86)’. What is the correct syntax for this please?

Best regards

David

Andrew Bayer

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Apr 18, 2018, 10:27:47 AM4/18/18

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I'd guess you need to escape the spaces in the original string? I dunno - I don't have a Windows environment handy to test on.

A.

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David Aldrich

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Apr 20, 2018, 3:54:33 AM4/20/18

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> I'd guess you need to escape the spaces in the original string?

Escaping didn’t help.

I’ve posted a complete description of the problem on Stackoverflow:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49922959/how-to-fix-java-was-unexpected-at-this-time-when-invoking-vs-2017-build-to

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Subject: Re: Declarative script: How to escape 'Program Files (x86)'?

I'd guess you need to escape the spaces in the original string? I dunno - I don't have a Windows environment handy to test on.

A.

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 6:28 AM, David Aldrich <David....@emea.nec.com> wrote:

My declarative script contains:

environment {

      VSMSBUILDCMD_14_0 = 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\Common7\\Tools\\VsMSBuildCmd.bat'

    VSMSBUILDCMD_14_1 = 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2017\\BuildTools\\Common7\\Tools\\VsMSBuildCmd.bat'

}

<snip>

steps {

    bat '''

        call "%VSMSBUILDCMD_14_1%"

        msbuild <snip>

    '''

This results in error:

c:\jenkins\workspace\MyJob>call "%C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\Common7\Tools\VsMSBuildCmd.bat%"

\Java\jre1.8.0_161\bin"" was unexpected at this time.

I think I need to escape ‘Program Files (x86)’. What is the correct syntax for this please?

Best regards

David

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