Hi roboticus

"In perl we have the same situation: You can start a process by making a command-line string or use the name and list of arguments to start the job."

This is what I was trying to achieve in C# with

string args = @"/C perl.exe " + pScript + " " + _dirPath;

On the command line it should be

perl finddupes.pl Test Folder

except because of the space in Test Folder it doesn't work, The pScript variable is a script selected via a ComboBox and _dirpath is a folder selected via a folder browser dialog

If I change the folder to Test_Folder then this works fine, the actual folder I am trying to check cannot be changed as it's a folder on my works NAS

I'll look more into ProcessStartInfo then, I have a WinForms front end to run my Perl scripts hence the original question.

In reply to Re^2: Dealing with spaces in folder names with ARGV[0] by Anonymous Monk
in thread Dealing with spaces in folder names with ARGV[0] by Anonymous Monk

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