Console Applications and Filenames (.Net)

Evil Phil wrote:

'Lo,

I'm passing filenames into a console application and am having problems with long filenames, namely the spaces in them.

For example if I say: foo File.txt then foo reads the file name as File.txt. If I pass in foo File Two.txt then I can loop through the args array but the filename is then FileTwo.txt which is obviously incorrect. foo "File Two.txt" works.

Is there any way I can get the filename passed in properly without using quotes?

I'm probably missing something obvious here it looks to me like you're getting two array elements, one with "File" and the other with "Two.txt" ? Can't you just have:

filename = args[0] + " " + args[1]

you'd have to put in some kind of logic to check if args[0] has a file extension, if not use args[1] aswell (altough you should really have some kind of loop to go through as many args as exist untill you get to one with a file extension and add them together with the spaces). If you need to handle other args you'd want to maintain an integer which holds how many places in the array to skip.

I don't think I've ever seen an app handle long file names properly, nice to see someone making that extra bit of effort.