From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-08-13T18:48:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows ENV object being corrupted

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2009/8/12 Herman Schultz <phermans@live.com>:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> 2009/8/12 Herman Schultz <phermans@live.com>:
>>>
>>>
>>> So I get the sense that spaces are the issue, I believe that quoting
>>> variables with spaces would probably solve the issue but I haven't trie=
d
>>> it yet.
>>
>> And what is your aim, i.e. what do you want to achieve? =A0If you want
>> to set environment variables for your Ruby script, you could easily do
>> this instead:
>>
>> File.foreach "setEnvironment.bat" do |line|
>> =A0 if /^\s*([^\s=3D]+)\s*=3D\s*(.*)$/ =3D~ line
>> =A0 =A0 ENV[$1] =3D $2
>> =A0 end
>> end
>>
>> and be done. =A0Your approach looks suspiciously complicated to me. =A0O=
f
>> course I may be missing something...
>
> Thanks, Robert. =A0I can't argue your approach isn't simpler. =A0In fact,=
 I
> can't remember why we ended up with this. All we really want is the same
> environment that the build system uses available for test and publishing
> systems. =A0Your suggestion is noted.
>
> However, the problem with ENV still exists. =A0The problem with spaces an=
d
> large numbers of environment variables. =A0It's just not in my way
> anymore. =A0When I get a chance I will use your approach and see if I can
> re-create the problem from just parsing the setEnvironment.bat.

I was curious and created the test attached but could not provoke any
issues with spaces.  I am pretty sure that the size of the environment
is limited somehow but I did not hit a limit or any issues with my
test (at 36,000 and still running).

What's going on here?

robert


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