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From: sutela@polaris.utu.fi (Kari Sutela)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Parsing filenames with blanks inside Rexx
Message-ID: <sutela.663249322@polaris>
Date: 7 Jan 91 11:55:22 GMT
References: <1400@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Organization: University of Turku, Finland
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jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:

[omitted the program]

>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.

Basically, showdir() is useless. I always use:

	'list nohead quick | execio stem files'
	do i = 1 to files.0
		/* whatever */
	end

but this requires WShell. You could redirect the output of the list command
to a temporary file.
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Kari Sutela	sutela@polaris.utu.fi