Open File Using External Program

[ziyan]

I am a university student in Sri Lanka and it is requred that I make a small program that will play a files according to a time table of a exhebition. The issue may be silly to ask, but i can't figgure out how to open a external file which has spaces in its path.

I am using C# for the app. The code I used is as follows...

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System.Diagnostics.Process pr = new System.Diagnostics.Process(); pr.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe"; pr.StartInfo.Arguments = @"C:\Documents and Settings\Ruwan In\My Documents\My Videos\CE Performance.mp4"; pr.Start();

VLC Opens, but a message says the following...

Unable to open 'C:\Documents'
Unable to open 'and'
Unable to open 'Settings\Ruwan'
Unable to open 'In\My'
Unable to open 'Documents\My'
Unable to open 'Videos\CE'
Unable to open 'Performance.mp4'

How should I give the argument to open a specific file in the hard disk. I would be obliged if any one could help.

Thank you.

Ziyan

[VLC_help]

But " or ' around the file location.

[ziyan]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I assume you are aksing if I used the double quotes or the single quotes... well I used the double quotes arround the path.

I tryed to use the single quotes, but it is underlined red by VisualStudio.

If I put the file in to a directory with no spaces and remove the space in the file name, then VLC opens it.
Ex Path : @"C:\CE_Performance.mp4" -> works

This is not a issue with VLC. I tryed the same after installing KM Player and it gave the same problem.I'd been checking the internet since evening, but every example I found had no spaces in the file name. It seems as though applications split the file path by the space and accept it as multiple files.

[VLC_help]

Try something like @"\"C:\Documents and Settings\Ruwan In\My Documents\My Videos\CE Performance.mp4\"";