Don’t quote FW_Path element of the program path – you need to quote the entire path AND program file name when/if any part of the path or the filename itself does – or may – contain spaces:
e.g. “path a\sub a\sub b\prog.exe” not “path a”\sub\prog.exe So in your case, this should do the trick: FW_Path := X; DXF := openDialog1.FileName; ProgramName := ‘”’ + FW_Path + '\FWTools2.4.7\bin\ogr2ogr” "-f" "PostgreSQL" PG:"host=192........ user=postgres dbname=E5R password=........" "'+ DXF +'" -nln Import_Process'; ShowMessage(ProgramName); hth From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Bob Pawley Sent: Thursday, 23 June 2011 10:30 To: DUG Subject: [DUG] Variable in String Hi I’m having trouble with using a variable in a string path. When I use the variable FW_Path := ‘C:\Program Files (x86)’ with two single quotes, the following works well and ShowMessage(ProgramName); displayed the full path . When I reference FW_Path to a variable X I get an error returned “Can Not run....” The variable X is returned as C:\Program Files (x86) without quotes. I attempted Quote String and got the following ‘C:\Program Files (x86) with one single quote. Both cases return the same error - and in both cases ShowMessage(ProgramName); displayed none of the path after C:\Program Files (x86). Help would be appreciated. Bob FW_Path := QuoteStr(X); DXF := openDialog1.FileName; ProgramName :=FW_Path+'\FWTools2.4.7\bin\ogr2ogr "-f" "PostgreSQL" PG:"host=192........ user=postgres dbname=E5R password=........" "'+ DXF +'" -nln Import_Process'; ShowMessage(ProgramName);
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