Re: One reason for failure of external scripts on Win32

[Angus Leeming]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Angus> The alternative is to escape 'special chars', so 'Dokumente
> und Angus> Einstellungen' becomes 'Dokumente\ und\ Einstellungen'.
> 
> This is probably more complicated and error prone.

Agreed. So we need:

string const subst_filename(string const & input,
                        string const & oldstr,
                        string const & newstr)
{
        return subst(input, oldstr, QuoteName(newstr));
}

That should be straightforward to do.

-- 
Angus