Questions about getting file names by FILENAME statement

[ACQ32d]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to get the filenames in a folder using filename statement but what if there is a single quote in my folder name?

For example, the following code:

filename names pipe 'dir "C:\user'name\folder\" /b';

It will cause an error because there is a ' (single quote) in the pathway (user'name). I don't want to change the pathway. Could anyone teach me how to make it work? 

Thanks!

[Kurt_Bremser]

Get rid of that stupid quote three days before yesterday. Such characters have no place in path names, as they only cause unnecessary work.

[PGStats]

Double the single quote:

filename names pipe 'dir "C:\user''name\folder\" /b';

that's two single quotes between user and name.

[Ksharp]

filename names pipe dir %sysfunc(quote("C:\user'name\folder\" /b));

[Ksharp]

filename names pipe  %sysfunc(quote(dir "C:\user'name\folder\" /b));