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From: wfh58@leah.albany.edu (William F. Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Parsing filenames with blanks inside Rexx
Summary: Pipe l-formatted list output into your Rexx script
Message-ID: <1991Jan7.164643.20116@sarah.albany.edu>
Date: 7 Jan 91 16:46:43 GMT
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In article <1400@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:
> . . .
>	files=showdir(dir)
>	do while words(files) > 0
> . . .
>I'm having problem handling filenames that contain embedded blanks.
> . . .
>Joe Smith (408)922-6220 | SMTP: jms@tardis.tymnet.com or jms@gemini.tymnet.com

Aside from using the optional "separator" argument with "showdir", you could
use

   list dir_name lformat "%s%s" | rx rexx_script

where rexx_script looks to STDIN for filenames.  If your shell does not
support '|' -style pipes, there is probably a way to use "PIPE:" instead.

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William F. Hammond                   Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics
518-442-4625                         SUNYA, Albany, NY 12222
hammond@leah.albany.edu              wfh58@albnyvms.bitnet
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