I am having a problem using the find command in qbasic. The find command requires that the string be surrounded by "". Is there a way in qbasic to mark the extra "" I would need to use in the shell command as a regular character instead of a special character? For example SHELL "find /c "Lname Fname" Text_file
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Using the DOS Find command in Qbasic
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