Question

I’m trying to run an executable using Lua’s os.execute() function. If I do something like the following it does not work:

os.execute("C:\\\Program Files\\\Movie Maker\\\moviemk.exe")

However, if I put my lua file in the same path that moviemk.exe is in then it can call it.

Any ideas why this may be?

P.S. I’m using Windows XP SP3

Answer 1

Try:

 os.execute("C:\\Program Files\\Movie Maker\\moviemk.exe")

or:

 os.execute("C:/Program Files/Movie Maker/moviemk.exe")

The ‘\’ character is used for escape characters in Lua.