MEL noob question

[Anonymous]

I'm a mel newbie.

This returns the current filename:

file -q -sn -shn;

but I don't understand why this doesn't work:

string $fileName = file -q -sn -shn;

[mspeer · Accepted solution]

Hi

You need the wrap the command inside `...`

string $fileName = `file -q -sn -shn`;

[Anonymous]

Thank you very much. I tried the single quote character ' instead of    `