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I am launching an installation .msi from Opus, which includes a number of what would otherwise be command line parameters in the format:



The quotes around the values are critical.

These work fine when submitted as a literal command line string, for example picked up from an ini file:



However some of the values vary according to previous use input (eg to a variable strVar1), and I was expecting to be able to do something like:



The resulting string appears visually to be identical, thus:



but the Windows installer fails with an Incorrect command line parameters error. This suggests that some other non-printing character is being generated with the backslash-doublequote.

Can anyone throw any light on this? Thanks.

Can you post exactly what you have for that line? I know from experience it's very easy to get these things slightly wrong.

Hi

This is the launch string:



where the various string vars have been read in from an .ini file, for example:



PUB_RADIOBUTTON carries a value such as "A" or "B". If I include PROFILELEVEL="A" within the ParamArgue string, then it works OK. As you say probably something fairly subtle (or very obvious).

Thanks, Linnet

You say that PROFILELEVEL="A" works, but your code has spaces around the equals, so it'd be PROFILELEVEL = "A", which is probably why it doesn't work.

Also you've got



Which I'm guessing should be

Hi Dave

Doh! You were absolutely right about the spaces. Thanks a million.

Linnet

No problem. When you're putting \" inside other quotes, it's almost impossible to follow what it's doing.