# \#pipes

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## [Launching subprocess in Ruby plugin - Not entering IF statement when loading from SketchUp](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/launching-subprocess-in-ruby-plugin-not-entering-if-statement-when-loading-from-sketchup/97380)

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**Author:** [@Finfa811](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/Finfa811)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [June 19, 2019, 4:04pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/launching-subprocess-in-ruby-plugin-not-entering-if-statement-when-loading-from-sketchup/97380 "2019-06-19T16:04:42Z")

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There is some strange behavior happening to me when I launch a subprocess in my Ruby plugin. The purpose is reading a line from the output and getting a substring of that line, the name of the project in this case. I use…

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## [Using pipes on windows does not work on 64-bit Sketchup, works on 32-bit SketchUp](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/using-pipes-on-windows-does-not-work-on-64-bit-sketchup-works-on-32-bit-sketchup/22241)

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**Author:** [@jeroen](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/jeroen)\
**Replies:** 28\
**Last updated:** [May 2, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/using-pipes-on-windows-does-not-work-on-64-bit-sketchup-works-on-32-bit-sketchup/22241 "2016-05-02T16:28:20Z")

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Using pipes on windows fails on 64-bit SketchUp windows. This example works perfectly on SketchUp 32-bit windows, but it fails in createPipe.Call on SketchUp 64-bit windows. I suspect maybe wrong pointer bitsize/type. …