tv_ReadTextFile and tv_WriteTextFile paths

[Svengali]

I'm having trouble with paths returned by these two commands WHEN THERE IS A SPACE IN ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLDER-NAMES ALONG THE PATH. EXAMPLE:

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Tv_GetPath "George"                            // find path to George folder
GeorgePath = result
tv_WriteTextFile "Exists" GeorgePath            // docs say supposed to return the ExistingFolderPath or ""
PathReturned = result
tv_warn PathReturned

The path returned should be something like:
C:\Program Files\TVPaint Developpement\TVPaint Animation 10 Pro(32bits)\george

But all that is returned is:
C:\Program

the result seems to drop everything past the first space in the path's name! This is a problem because there are many spaces just in the default path getting to TVPaint subfolder or to read what is in the George subfolder - which makes it impossible to READ/WRITE TEXT commands to store or retrieve text file contents inside the TVPaint path.

Is this a bug or is there something I'm not understanding?

Sven

[Hervé]

try:
tv_WriteTextFile "Exists" '"'GeorgePath'"'

[Svengali]

try:
tv_WriteTextFile "Exists" '"'GeorgePath'"'

It works.

'"'GeorgePath'"' enclosing variable with single quote, double quote, single quote (not two double quotes) on each side...

Perhaps TVPaint Wiki should be updated to indicate this syntax / punctuation?

Sven