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Power Automate Desktop run application and pass parameters string

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Posted on by q-mgt

Hello,
I'm trying to run an application with parameters with Power Automate Desktop and i encounter a problem.

I have to run a program with string in parameter but the quote seem to be removed when Power Automate run the program.

When i run the flow, i can see an MySql windows open and close imediately. it's too fast to view any error.
The only return i have is the AppExitCode and it is at 1

You can see in the screenshot what i want to do.

i have already tried to escape the quotes with ` or ^ and use other quotes like " or ' but nothing working.
Anyone have an idea to resolve this problem ?

Thanks in advance.

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Highboy 1,183 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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If you run the program manually on the same computer, with the command line arguments that you used in PAD, does that work?

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q-mgt 4 on at

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Yes !
I have launched same program with same parameters and it works perfectely

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Gidi 601 on at

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Hi,
have you tried to use a variable with the command string and use it in the Run application action?

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q-mgt 4 on at

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Yes i have tried but it didn't works too

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Gidi 601 on at

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can you show the content of the variable?

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CU08090150-0 2 on at

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I hate how PAD always seem to remove quotes of variables whenever passed as arguments, even when I tried to pass it as literal string

One of my workaround for this problem is that I would place the string you want to pass as argument into a Custom variable, convert it into JSON, write it into a **CSV** temp file, *read* it back, and then use Right() to trim the literal string to have the argument you want to pass. But one of the problem with this method is that it messed up Unicode, badly, because something about converting to CSV and such.

It's a lengthy workaround, so if anyone has a better option, please suggest it.

Edit: Turn out wrapping it in triple quotes ("""ABC""") is all that's needed.

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