print quote mark in the string( apologize if it has been posted too many times)

Your command has spaces in the wrong places. If I do:

 command=strcat("grep " "\"" "Vout" "\"" " capinfo.txt>cap.out" )

then command returns this:

 "grep \"Vout\" capinfo.txt>cap.out"

Note that the backslashes are not really there - this is just the print representation. For example, if I do:

printf("THE COMMAND IS [%s]\n" command)

then it outputs:

 THE COMMAND IS [grep "Vout" capinfo.txt>cap.out]

and I can happily do:

sh(command)

and it works perfectly. If the backslashes bother you, you could always do:

  command=strcat("grep " "'" "Vout" "'" " capinfo.txt>cap.out" )

i.e. use single quotes, to get:

 "grep 'Vout' capinfo.txt>cap.out"

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

I have a similar request and I used the "\"" approach but it still doesn't work for the arguments. In my case I'm trying to open a csv file like below:

csvinput="C:\\temp\\tmp space\\mydata.csv"

path=axlGetVariable("CURRENT_OFFICE_VERSION")
cmdOpenCSV=strcat( "\"" path "\\EXCEL.EXE" "\" \"" csvinput "\"" )
cid = ipcBatchProcess(cmdOpenCSV "" "c:\\temp\\skill_log.txt")

If I place mydata.csv on a folder without spaces, it works. Also, strangely enough the "\"" worked for excel's path as it also has white spaces. Could you please comment on that? 

Thanks in advance.

This is probably not the best place to ask this question - you're using SKILL with the Allegro platform (not Custom IC) and so you'd be better off asking this in the PCB SKILL forum (the forum guidelines ask you not to post on the end of old threads anyway, especially as this one is 9 years old).

Since I don't have the Allegro tools installed on Windows (and they're not my area of expertise), I can't really do some tests to see how this works or figure out which things you need to quote or escape. So please ask this again in the PCB SKILL forum.

Andrew.

This is probably not the best place to ask this question - you're using SKILL with the Allegro platform (not Custom IC) and so you'd be better off asking this in the PCB SKILL forum (the forum guidelines ask you not to post on the end of old threads anyway, especially as this one is 9 years old).

Since I don't have the Allegro tools installed on Windows (and they're not my area of expertise), I can't really do some tests to see how this works or figure out which things you need to quote or escape. So please ask this again in the PCB SKILL forum.

Andrew.