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I want to run 7zip on a selected archive in windows explorer via a keyboard shortcut.

I am trying to split the path for the selected file/folder such that I can surround the path components which have spaces in them with quotes - so 7zip can work.

For eg,
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\converber.zip

Here, I need to parse and then change the relevant part to ---

C:\"Documents and Settings"\Administrator\Desktop\converber.zip

The code I wrote is below, but I am getting stuck because I cant add the \ to the regenerated string?

Sorry if the mistake is stupid, but I cant solve it!

Please help!!

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First to get the components of a path\filename use SplitPath. It is much easier to use and there will be no mistakes (uses system calls to parse the path\file). BTW it can also parse url's.

Second, unless something is very strange with your run 7zip command, 7zip should be very happy with something like:

Simple solution would be to convert filepath to 8.3 format

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Ah, I did not think of the obvious solution of surrounding the entire path with quotes! Thank you for telling me

But I still do not understand how does one concatenate strings in ahk? and if there are any special chars, then how do I use escape seqeuences to include them.

Currently, the only thing I need is to surround an entire string with double quotes, how do I do that?

oops I posted the above comment as guest. Anyway I figured it out,
target = "%filename%"

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