MD command 3

[FoxWing]

Hi,

I came across an error when i try to create a directory which contain a space.


Example
w_path = "c:\Program Files\ABC"

MD &w_path <-- this will only create a folder called PROGRAM

Does anyone has a clue why ?

Thanks

 

[ChrisRChamberlain]

FoxWing

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[Mike Lewis]

Foxwing,

Yep, this is a familiar problem. The fault lies not in the use of MD, but in the macro expansion. The "&" operator will see the space as the end of the string which it is expanding. The solution is to either use parens:

MD (w_path)

or (better) avoid spaces in path names altogether (they can cause lots of irritating problems).

Mike

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[rgbean]

And for completeness, you can also use:

w_path = "c:\Program Files\ABC"
MD "&w_path"

Rick