[Gambas-user] How to specify a string constant in an Exec statement

[John Rose]

As I understand it from a quick read of the man page, the ".*" is a 
regular expression passed to get-iplayer itself. As such it does not 
need to be expanded by a shell.

But, your Exec command is missing a single quote. It should be:
Exec ["get_iplayer","'.*'","--type=TV"] To sOutput


Lee,

Interestingly your solution gave less output (i.e. 4 programmes found) 
with code of:
Shell "get_iplayer --type=tv \".*\"" To sOutput
compared to to the number found (i.e. 5441 programmes found) when using 
Shell (see results of running TestApp2 in both FMain form & Console 
output) with code of:
Shell "get_iplayer --type=tv \".*\"" To sOutput
(or the 5441 programmes found  when using Shell with code of:
Shell "get_iplayer --type=tv \".*\"" Wait For Read As "getiplayerMessages"
and coding for the events getiplayerMessages_Read getiplayerMessages_Error).

So I am now using Shell rather than Exec.

BTW I have changed the input to Shell & Exec above (in the attached 
TestApp.tar.gz) so as to follow the documentation for
.get-iplayer in the github get-iplayer wiki

John


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