Sending multiple arguments with quotes

[stevo.zilik]

Hi,

I was having hard time to pass 2 arguments encapsulated in quotes (paths) to a custom action, but I've figured out how to do that so that it worked out.

But now, I have 3 arguments that need to be in quotes (because they contain spaces) and I couldn't find a way how to send then correctly.

Example:

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"[SourceDir]Files" "[DESTINATION_DIR]" "/l-[ProductLanguage]"

what I get on the application side is something like this:

1st. arg.: C:\Files
2nd. arg.: D:\Application" /l-1033

I've tried to remove quotes from last argument and it did not help. Single Quotes (') don't work.

[fd1]

Did you try it this way?

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"[SourceDir]"Files "[DESTINATION_DIR]" /l-"[ProductLanguage]"

[stevo.zilik]

this

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"[SourceDir]"Files "[DESTINATION_DIR]" /l-"[ProductLanguage]"

will produce this:

1st. arg.: C:\"Files D:\Application"
2nd. arg.: /l-1033

[stevo.zilik]

Anybody some ideas?

[Ionut]

Hi,

Try this:

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"[SourceDir]Files" "[DESTINATION_DIR] " "/l-[ProductLanguage]"

Notice that there is a space after "[DESTINATION_DIR]" because this Formatted value will have a trailing backslash (all directory paths do after CostFinalize) which will cause the following quote character to be escaped.

Let me know how it works.

Regards,
Ionut

[stevo.zilik]

You were right, it's about the backslash escaping quota.

thank you