Thread: Help Needed on Runtime.getRuntime()

Have written a program to open Excel sheet from java program.

Below line works fine.

Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[]{"\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\Excel.EXE\"","C:\\Users\\RASHPA~ 1.ORA\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\Export_xl420314062726 9379706.xls"});

But below code gives error i.e. Executable name has embedded quote, split the arguments

String path = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\Excel.EXE";
String file = "C:\\Users\\RASHPA~1.ORA\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\Ex port_xl4203140627269379706.xls";

Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[]{"\""+path+"\"" + ","+file});

I am using java 1.6.

So, if you have code that works fine, what do you need help with?

Your first example has a string array with 2 elements and your second example has a string array with only a single element.