To Quote or Not to Quote... by Kim Henkel

To Quote or Not to Quote [Bug]

By: Kim Henkel Riverview, FL
Date: Feb 01,2011 at 23:48
In Response to: To Quote or Not to Quote (John Gruener)

> I'm a bit confused on two counts.
>
> 1. If I understand correctly, when Pat substituted an older version of
> TFC.EXE (v3.2f) it worked correctly. So how did this have anything to do
> with quotes (or lack thereof) in his TFC.BAT file, which was unchanged?

That's a very good question - I have no idea!

> 2. In a previous version, when I got this "file not found" error, you
> traced it to the fact that I was using quotes inside the TFC.BAT file,
> and, while fixing the bug, advised me that I didn't need them. Now you
> seem to be saying that they are required.

The path string you had quoted did not itself contain spaces:
"%#ZTHome%\TFC.EXE" -4 -L -V -D %1 %6 %4 %5
You don't need them here because in this special case (TFC.BAT), ZTree itself does the expansion of %#ZTHome%, and will add quotes if required.

Similarly all Alt-F10 options that specify a command line, are parsed internally, and quotes are not required, but cause no problem if present.

In any other case where the shell is involved (.BAT or .CMD), you'll obviously need quotes, so I guess the general advice would be, if in doubt, use quotes %-)

Kim

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[Bug] TFC file not found error (1,501) - Pat Swovelin - Jan 31,2011 at 11:41 [Bug]
- [Bug] TFC file not found error (1,232) - Ian Binnie - Jan 31,2011 at 13:23
  - [Bug] TFC file not found error (1,637) - Pat Swovelin - Jan 31,2011 at 16:42
    - [Bug] TFC file not found error (1,269) - Juergen Hestermann - Jan 31,2011 at 17:27
      - [Bug] TFC file not found error (1,181) - Kim Henkel - Jan 31,2011 at 18:24
        [Bug] TFC file not found error (1,250) - Pat Swovelin - Feb 01,2011 at 04:50
        [Bug] TFC file not found error (1,194) - Ian Binnie - Feb 01,2011 at 07:10
        [Bug] TFC file not found error (1,241) - Kim Henkel - Feb 01,2011 at 09:10
        [Bug] TFC file not found error (1,626) - Pat Swovelin - Feb 01,2011 at 11:32
        [Bug] TFC file not found error (1,069) - Kim Henkel - Feb 01,2011 at 17:43
        [Bug] TFC file not found error (1,457) - Ian Binnie - Feb 01,2011 at 11:49
        To Quote or Not to Quote (1,123) - John Gruener - Feb 01,2011 at 23:31
        To Quote or Not to Quote (1,234) - Kim Henkel - Feb 01,2011 at 23:48
        To Quote or Not to Quote (1,288) - John Gruener - Feb 02,2011 at 02:33
        To Quote or Not to Quote (1,133) - Ian Binnie - Feb 02,2011 at 04:49
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      - [Bug] TFC file not found error (1,173) - Pat Swovelin - Feb 01,2011 at 11:39
        ZTreeWin Beta (1,402) - Ian Binnie - Feb 01,2011 at 11:59
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