[RESOLVED] Vb6 - shellexecute doesnt like "&"

[horazio]

Hi

I was trying to send an email thru shellexecute and I found out that if the text being sent contains a "&", shellexecute will just stop reading beyond &.
I don't know why (Im not familiar with shellexecute)

In my particular case, the example is:

ShellExecute 0&, vbNullString, emailaddress & "?subject=" & MailSub.TEXT & "&body=" & Replace(MailTEXT.TEXT, vbCrLf, "%0A"), vbNullString, vbNullString, SW_SHOWNORMAL

I thought it could be useful to know for other VB6 users too.

Regards


Horazio

[TysonLPrice]

This:

MailSub.TEXT & "&body=" & Replace

Seems like it would be

MailSub.TEXT&body=Replace

With what ever was in mailsub.text and the Replace(MailTEXT.TEXT, vbCrLf, "%0A"),

So If mailsub.text was XXXX and Replace(MailTEXT.TEXT, vbCrLf, "%0A") was ZZZ it would be

XXX&bodyZZZZ

Was that intentional?

[horazio]

mailsub.text and mailtext.text ar both standard text controls

mailsub.text contains the title/object of the email

mailtext.text is the email message, if there is a "&" shellexecute will stop until it finds this character

[techgnome]

it's not shellexecute that doesn't like it... it'll happily take what you send it... the thing is, what you're executing is essentially a URL using the mailto protocol instead of the http one... which means everything you send over on the URL has to be URLEncoded... and there are classes, functions & APIs to help with that. Search for URLEncode VB6 ... that should tunr up a few results, including a few right here in VBF.

-tg

[horazio]

Thanks Technome