Variable %P and long Pathname

[eschaefer]

Hello,
- adding a new icon in the buttonbar
- runing a batchfile with Parameter %P

It does'nt work if you have an Space/Blank in the Path-Name,
%P returns only Pathname till the first Blank !

and BTW

I missing an %.. which returns only the actual Directoryname,
without the Full-/Long Name

Regards
Egbert

[Sir_SiLvA]

Please read the Help, Clo's Tut and use the Search

%P works fine but you should put it in Quotes (")
Otherwise your OS cuts the String at the first Space...

HTH

[karlchen]

Hi, Egbert.

NO BUG:
The variable %P works as designed and desribed in the help.
It will hold the complete path plus a trailing \.
This is true for pathnames enclosing blanks as well.

But: %P will give the complete path without enclosing it in double quotes.

This is why you should add the enclosing double quotes before passing the content of %P to a batchfile as a commandline argument, i.e. pass it as "%P".

Karl

[Hacker]

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[eschaefer]

Hi,
yes it works !
Thanks !
I had the double quotes only in the Batchfile
(e.x. echo "%1").

Any chance to get the actual folder only ?
Background:
Being in Folder Fold1:
I want to copy a File (file1) to file2, but with the folder
als a Part of the Filename.
In the the way of:
copy <file1> <fold1name - sometext>