From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-01-12T09:20:07+09:00
Subject: Re: File::exists?( "filename with a blank in it" )

On Jan 11, 3:30 pm, Ralph Shnelvar <ral...@dos32.com> wrote:
> Newbie here/
>
> Consider
>
> IMAGEMAGICK_EXE_PATH = '"f:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.5.8-Q16\convert.exe"'
>
> (rdb:2) File::exists?( IMAGEMAGICK_EXE_PATH )
> false
>
> What's the right way to test if a file name which has a blank in it exists?

For double quotes: use double backlashes:

"F:\\Program Files\\ImageMagick..."

For single quotes, it can work as is.

I recommendation also is ensure all the paths are expanded with
File.expand_path, which is going to ensure forward slashes are used
instead.

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Luis Lavena