Question: Re: Passing A String With Spaces To A Tool
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Nick Schurch • 50 wrote:
Dear Galaxy-gurus,
How can I pass a string with spaces as a parameter from the galaxy
interface
to a tool that I've written myself in perl? I've tried enclosing the
string
with quotes (single and double) and various escape characters and all
they
do is add __dq/sq/X__ to the start of the string and then ignore
everything else after the space.
my xml looks like:
<tool id="blah" name="mytool">
<command interpreter="perl">
/pathto/mycommand.pl -str $str
</command>
<inputs>
<param name="str" type="text" label="Put your string here"/>
The kind of commandline i'm looking for this to generate is....
perl mycommand.pl -str "this is my string"
but currently it just gives
perl mycommand.pl -str this
or
perl mycommand.pl -str __dq__this
or
perl mycommand.pl -str X__dq__this
Thanks!
--
Cheers,
Nick Schurch
Data Analysis Group (The Barton Group),
School of Life Sciences,
University of Dundee,
Dow St,
Dundee,
DD1 5EH,
Scotland,
UK
Tel: +44 1382 388707
Fax: +44 1382 345 893
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