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Passing a variable to an msi.InstallProducts

New to VBScipt (Old in Winbatch...) In our environment, we need to run installs from long path names with spaces. How do I pass the sCommandPath variable to the ??? below. I tried everything I could think of with combinations of parens, quotes, none, some, etc. I'm sure it's something simple I'm missing here. It works fine if I eliminate the space in the path statement and actual dir, then don't need to nbsp code, but those spaces are going to stay, so...need to get around them. Thanks for any assistance

Dim nbsp, sCommandPath, sPath
sPath="\\dwdsetup\prod\Apps\Lexis-Nexis\Lexis7215\Automated Install\LexisNexis.msi"
nbsp = Chr(160)
sCommandPath = replace(sPath, " ", nbsp)
Set msi = CreateObject("WindowsInstaller.Installer")
msi.UILevel = 4
msi.InstallProducts ???
Asked 18 years ago 4635 views
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Posted by: WiseUser 18 years ago
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Didn't you mean "msi.InstallProduct" (singular)?
Posted by: fosteky 18 years ago
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Maybe a %20 instead of a backspace?:
sPath="\\dwdsetup\prod\Apps\Lexis-Nexis\Lexis7215\Automated%20Install\LexisNexis.msi"
Posted by: brenthunter2005 18 years ago
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sPath=CHR(34) & "\\dwdsetup\prod\Apps\Lexis-Nexis\Lexis7215\Automated Install\LexisNexis.msi" & CHR(34)



CHR(34) is equal to a quotation mark. Another way would be to duplicate the quotation marks as in: sPath="""\\dwdsetup\prod\Apps\Lexis-Nexis\Lexis7215\Automated Install\LexisNexis.msi"""
Posted by: Thegunner 18 years ago
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ORIGINAL: fosteky

Maybe a %20 instead of a backspace?:
sPath="\\dwdsetup\prod\Apps\Lexis-Nexis\Lexis7215\Automated%20Install\LexisNexis.msi"


I would give this one a try, as i have found %20 helps me out a lot.
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