Error running java when space in filename

[mathdeep]

Hi everyone,

I can't run java files, which have a space in their filename. At first I want to say that this seems closely related to #1455 But because this is closed although I think no real solution was found, I hereby try it again. So when I want to run a java file with spaces in the file name, I get

error: invalid flag: C:\Users\Me\dir Usage: javac <options> <source files> use --help for a list of possible options

while the file is located in "C:\Users\Me\dir with spaces", so it ignores the " with spaces" and I think this is treaded as the arguments thereafter. There was #2428 marked, but this didn't solve it. I also tried the comment therein. I'm just guessing, but the problem seems to be before the argument formatting.

If anyone has ideas or if I should try something, let me know.

Best regards

[icecream17]

Maybe try

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/tools/windows/javac.html

[...] If a filename contains embedded spaces, put the whole filename in double quotes, and double each backslash ("My Files\\Stuff.java").

[mathdeep]

Hi icecream17,

Thanks for your reply. Yeah, that's what I'd like to do. My problem is that I don't know how to make script make this do. As I see it:

• case 1: In script the filepath is correct and just the printing to the console should be changed. With this I mean, that the variable ''filepath'' (or whatever this is called) has the correct String and the String just should get formatted, e.g. [C:\Users\Me\dir with spaces] to ["C:\\Users\\Me\\dir with spaces"]. Then there still would be the question whether this should be changed for windows alltogether but I totally have no knowledge of this part.
• case 2: Even the variable is wrong. This would mean that the error comes from an earlier point. Maybe when trying to read the path with JavaScript or something like this.

Any ideas? Somewhere I found, that you could try it with changing ''formatArgs'' in ''grammar-utils.js'' in the ''lib'' directory but this didn't really change anything. Otherwise I just tried the commands from there, so maybe I just didn't try the right one yet.