Spaces in file path

GAMS
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Hello,

I am trying to ‘compartmentalize’ my GAMS code. In doing so, I am building a ‘Main.gms’ script, which call several sub-files. An example of this looks like

* Main.gms

*Define output to the IDE
$setglobal ide "ide=%gams.ide% lo=%gams.lo% errorlog=%gams.errorlog% errmsg=1"

loop( cases,

*This bit of code creates the GDX files from CSVs which are read into the solver
execute "gams Path To File\CreateGDXFile.gms s=wf1" %ide%"     ;

*This is a portion of the code
execute "gams Path To File/SubFile1.gms r=wf1 %ide%"  ;

... and so on

The issue I am running into is that the ‘PATH TO FILE’ causes this command to fail, due to the spaces. There error is

Error: Parameter error(s), Reading parameter(s) from "command line", **** Error Unkown option "To"

Is there any work around to getting the code to run? Is there a different approach I should be using other than ‘execute’. I think the loop aspect makes execute a necessity.

P.S. According to https://support.gams.com/platform:spaces_in_directory_or_file_name, GAMS should be able to handle spaces as of 2018.

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execute (as $call) calls the shell of the system. Do what you need to do to protect the spaces. For example:

execute 'gams "Path To File/SubFile1.gms" r=wf1 %ide%'  ;

-Michael

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I am confirming this works. Thanks for the fast response.