Question

How to represent the space inside this statement:

C:\\Program Files

so that I can put it inside my code properly. I suspect that my program does not work, because of the ‘missing’ char 🙁

I want to declare like this:

static char Log[256] = "C:\\Program Files\\Mywork\\text.txt";

This one does not work too:

      SHELLEXECUTEINFO info = {0};
  info.cbSize = sizeof(SHELLEXECUTEINFO);
  info.fMask  = SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS;
  info.lpFile = _T("C:\\Program Files\\Mywork\\iecapt.exe");

I am currently using visual studio to compile this. It can compile, but when running, it give error could not find the iecapt.exe.

Answer 1

The problem is not the space, it is the backslashes. Try this:

static char Log[256] = "C:\\Program Files\\Mywork\\text.txt";

Otherwise the backslashes mean “interpret the next character according to the C string escaping rules, where “\t” for example means TAB.

The @”literal string” syntax suggested in another answer might work too, but I don’t think it’s standard outside of Windows.