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[fmardani]

Hi,
If I run the following line in the RUN dialog box (i.e. start, run window) it works fine (Notice the double quotes at the beginning, middle and the end):
"\\W-I55ZB6B7\c$\Program Files\game" \\psiukapp6\test.zip ckff.ckff.asc \\W-I55ZB6B7\c$\test"


but when this line is created in c# it is not quite the same (Notice the double quotes) and therefore I can not run it using System.Diagnostics.Process.Start

strLine = @"\\W-I55ZB6B7\c$\Program Files\game \\psiukapp6\test.zip capt.capt.asc \\W-I55ZB6B7\c$\test"

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(strLine)

The error is: system can not find the file specified.

How is it possible to make the c# created string as same as the one which can be run in the RUN dialog box?
Thanks

[Genie]

for each backslash you need to add an extra one.

so \ would become \\

and \\ would become \\\\

you could also try a single forward slash instead

ie c:/data/myfile.txt

I think there was another way where you could enter the path as is but can't remember how to do that now.

[fmardani]

I don't think the problem is to do with back slash because this is really what I have

string strUnzipPath = strUnzipLocation + " " + strPath + " " + strFullFilename + " " + strTempLocation;
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(strUnzipPath);

note that
strUnzipPath = "\"\\\\W-I55ZB6B7\\c$\\Program Files\\WinZip\\wzunzip\" \\\\psiukapp6\\pershusp\\History\\01-01-2004\\01-01-2004-pershing.zip capt.capt.asc \\\\W-I55ZB6B7\\c$\\farshad\\downloads"


Thanks

[axion_sa]

String literals (as you originally had it fmardani) are a lot more readable IMO. Perhaps escaping the last double quotes might help you:

strLine = @"\\W-I55ZB6B7\c$\Program Files\game \\psiukapp6\test.zip capt.capt.asc \\W-I55ZB6B7\c$\test\""

[fmardani]

Did what you suggested but still the error is: system can not find the file specified. :-( Thanks

I think there has to be a " after strUnzipLocation as I have tried doing but it does not work.

string strTempLocation = @"\\W-I55ZB6B7\c$\farshad\downloads";
string strUnzipLocation = @"\\W-I55ZB6B7\c$\Program Files\WinZip\wzunzip.exe";
string strPath = @"\\psiukapp6\pershusp\History\01-01-2004\01-01-2004-pershing.zip";
string strFullFilename = "capt.capt.asc"

string strUnzipPath = strUnzipLocation + " " + strPath + " " + strFullFilename + " " + strTempLocation;

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(strUnzipPath);