From: pere.noel@... (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Une_b=E9vue?=)
Date: 2006-10-06T20:40:10+09:00
Subject: Re: script arg with doble quote

Collins, Justin <collinsj@seattleu.edu> wrote:

> 
> Why do you need the double quotes? If it's to pass the path back 
> to the shell (or other, similar place), you can put quotes 
> around the entire argument to the same effect.
> 
> For example:
> 
> path = ARGV[0]
> system("ls -l '#{ARGV[0]}'")    #Using single quotes avoids having 
> to escape them
> 
> 
> Does that help?

no because the path I get is trhu another api i'm not the master of.

in fact it is my lone arg coming from Finder (Mac OS X) thru (Bog Cat a
Contextual Menu helper).

i think big cat is buggy for that point of view then, for the time being
i prevent the final user not to use double quotes in file/dir names
which pretty uncommon )))

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