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chuckie7413

03-26-2009, 03:31 PM

In my script I want to print the render.exe path into a .bat file.

At the moment the script line looks like this:

print ("Render -r mi -binary 0 -cam " + $camera + " " + $selectedScenes[$i] + "\r");

This works fine and prints the correct text into my file however I need to print the full path of the Render executable. In order for it to render it needs to look like this at the start:

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2008\bin\Render.exe"

However when I try and insert this into the script. eg

print (""C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2008\bin\Render.exe" -r mi -binary 0 -cam " + $camera + " " + $selectedScenes[$i] + "\r");

I get a syntax error. It doesn't seem to like the two "" at the start.

How can i fix this.

Thanks

Rich

ticket01

03-26-2009, 04:37 PM

If you want to use double quotes inside a string you have to escape it, like you did with the \r.

print( "\"quote\"" ) will output "quote".

DOor

03-26-2009, 04:43 PM

when using quotes inside of quotes you need to escape them with a \ like this " \"some text\" "

[edit] - bah beat me to it, what ticket said :P

chuckie7413

03-26-2009, 04:52 PM

brilliant!

thanks guys :)

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