Problems with spaces in directory or file names and Word.exe

Question

Hi
I'm trying to open a file with Word from my java aplication, and I have a problem with some file/directory names.
I have this
String cmd = "c:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office10\\WINWORD.EXE" + " " + path;
try {
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);
} catch (Exception errorea){ }
Here is what happens:
if path is something like this: "c:\people\info.doc" , there's no problem, Word opens the document, but if path contains blank spaces somewhere, it doesn't work. For example:
path = "c:\Documents and Settings\info.doc"
path = "c:\Hi everybody\info.doc"
path = "c:\tests\test results.doc"
with the above examples it doesn't work :( Word tries to open "c:\Documents", "c:\Hi" or "c:\tests\test".
Can anyone help? thanx a lot ! : )

Answer 1

No, the exec method runs the Word.weird, it shouldn't, and it wouldn't on my system going by the test I just made, but I'm running linux & not windows, maybe the command line parsing is different for some reason.
The problem is that
Word starts and then Word says that it can't open the
file because the name or the path to the file is not
valid.You still should use the overload that takes a String array.