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Thanks Kishori..we did that and that is working..once again Thanks

Posted by ruchi and hema on January 05, 2001 at 9:24 AM

> You can do that. Check the file extension and then create an array of String as follows.
> String[] cmd = new String[2] ;

> // Get the file name and check the file extension
> String fileName = getFileName ( ) ;
> cmd[1] = fileName ;

> // Now based on file extension use the application to open it
> if ( fileExtension.equals ( ".jpg" ) {
> cmd[0] = "...\\iexplore.exe" ;

> }

> // Now open the file
> Runtime.getRuntime().exec( cmd ) ;

> I ran the following hard coded values and it works.
> String[] cmd = { "c:\\kishori\\iexplore.exe", "c:\\kishori\\dhr.jpg" } ;
> Runtime.getRuntime().exec ( cmd ) ;

> Thanx
> Kishori