I want to play .aif file located in the pd/docs/sound directory in my progam files (PC)

So I plugged this in:

[open open C:/ProgramFiles/pd/doc/sound/clap.aif]
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[readsf~]
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[dac~]

And it comes up with "error: dsp: C:/ProgramFiles/pd/doc/sound/clap.aif: No such file or directory"

Is there a certain way of specifying the directory, or have I got the patch completely wrong?

Apologies for the complete freshness of my question.

[open /path/filename(

is correct. (i assume the 'open open' in your post here is a typing mistake? you only need 1 'open')

make sure that your path is correct. if there are spaces in the filename, then move your files to a folder without spaces in its name. check the filename for upper and lower case letters too, they will probably need to be correct ("A" is different to "a")

otherwise, what you are doing is correct.

yes that was a typo sorry.

and thanks for that, I moved the file into a directory without spaces (C:/bak/clap.aif) and it worked perfectly!