[Swift-user] Passing strings with blanks to apps in swift

[Mihael Hategan]

File the report. "Don't use spaces" does not nicely encapsulate a
reproducible solution. Sooner or later others will run into this problem
despite any "don't use spaces" we put in the documentation, simply
because the decision to not use spaces belongs to the application domain
not those who bridge Swift with the applications.

On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 19:08 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> or don't use strings, just like any other time in unix.
> 
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 13:03 -0600, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 18:56 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > If you put the string in quotes it should work. One string is one
> > > > > element in argv.
> > > > 
> > > > some of the GRAM2 jobmanagers don't deal with that - I know condor 
> > > > doesn't. 
> > > 
> > > Don't use the condor job manager then.
> > 
> > Actually file an enhancement request with CoG to quote things when the
> > condor job manager is used explicitly. Waiting for it to be fixed in
> > GRAM 2 and then deployed on sites is silly.
> > 
> > Mihael
> > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 12:20 -0600, Michael Wilde wrote:
> > > > > > In angle i need to pass a string of IDs as a single parameter to an 
> > > > > > application:
> > > > > >    angle "7171717 76 76" --more stuff --here
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Can you point me to an example of how to pass/quote this correctly, so 
> > > > > > that the command line is invoked exactly as above (in this case with 
> > > > > > argc=5, and argv[1]="7171717 76 76" ?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Thanks.
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