"James Whitlow" <jwhitlow.60372693@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Gavaskar" <nospam@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%23JEIlgo%23JHA.4900@xxxxxx Quote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I'm trying to run a program, lets use mspaint as an example.
>>
>> I've got mspaint in the folder path
>>
>> c:\Program Files\Company Name\Version-001\mspaint.exe
>> c:\Program Files\Company Name\Version-002\mspaint.exe
>> c:\Program Files\Company Name\Version-003\mspaint.exe
>>
>>
>> When I run the script, I query the file mspaint.exe for the version
>> number, so I know which one to execute, and I assign that version ID to a
>> variable VersionString.
>> The returned string will be "Version-001" or "Version-002" or
>> "Version-003"
>>
>>
>> My problem is when I do a wshShell.run I'm having problems with the white
>> spaces and adding the variable.
>>
>> Mypath = """c:\Program Files\Company Name\""" & VersionString &
>> "\mspaint.exe", 3, False
>>
>> wshshell.run Mypath, 3, False
>>
>> I always get a error message that it can not find the specified file
>
> Change your 'Mypath' live to look like this:
>
> Mypath = """c:\Program Files\Company Name\" & VersionString & _
> "\mspaint.exe"""
>
> You just needed to move the closing quotes for the command to the end of
> 'mspaint.exe' and remove the ',3, False' since that is part of your 'Run'
> command and not part of the variable assignment.
>