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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Parsing filenames with blanks inside Rexx
Summary: How do you do it?
Message-ID: <1400@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 7 Jan 91 07:04:37 GMT
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA
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Enclosed is an excerpt from one of my Arexx scripts:

	scandir:
	arg dir
	files=showdir(dir)
	do while words(files) > 0
		file=subword(files,1,1)
		xx=statef(file)
		say xx	/* this line simplified for this example */
		files=subwork(files,2)
		end
	return

I'm having problem handling filenames that contain embedded blanks.
Other than modifying the showdir() function to put some sort of quotes
around these filenames, I don't see how files like this can be processed.

Is there something I'm missing?  Or is this an unsolvable problem?
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