PassThru Printing with Embedded Spaces

[Stanley - stanlyn.com]

Hi,

 

I'm having trouble passing a string with embedded spaces to Anzio's pass
thru printing.  I've talked with Bob and he says he isn't a filepro coder,
so I'm asking here.

 

I have tried replacing the backslashes with forward slashes, escaping the
slashes, and lots of other combos.  

 

The goal of this code is to produce a pdf file with the invoice number as
its name with a ".pdf" appended, and place it in the folder bearing its
vendor id and name separated by a " - ".  I've explained it all below.

 

When it works as expected, the filepath will look like this:

Actual path: "D:/AP_Images/AP/F/FILEP-01 - FilePro Mailing List/123456.pdf"

 

wz(50,*)=7{" - "{11{"/"{1{".pdf"

Field 7 represents the vendor id: "FILEP-01"

Field 11 represents the vendor name: "FilePro Mailing List"

The literal string " - " is a separator that separates the vendor id and
name for use into an existing folder name that is: "FILEP-01 - FilePro
Mailing List"

Field 1 represents the invoice number: "123456"

And the final string ".pdf" is the .extension for the file name.

 

dw(1)=mid(7,"1","1")

The "dw" variable holds the first character of the vendor id so we can point
it into the "F" subfolder in this case

 

pn(100,*)="pdf://L:/AP_Images/AP/"{dw{"/">

Variable "pn" holds the 1st part of the string that will be passed to Anzio

 

show raw chr("28")&"printer " &pn &wz  &chr("29")

Now pass this to Anzio.

 

I know that this can be written as a single string.  I've been breaking it
into smaller parts in an attempt to get it working. 

 

Also I've some other list's articles about embedded spaces namely "Re:
system command to copy a file to a path with a space in it" around
03/25/2015.  It's confusing because some of the advice show three ticks
several places in the string which could only be one single quote and one
double quote.  I say confusing, because a single quote comments out the rest
of the line.  Anyway, just something that may be preventing this to run.

 

Thanks,

Stanley

 

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