Cannot Figure out Spaces in Variable File

I feel like I have read the whole internet and tried this in every possible combination. I feel confident I am missing the one obvious solution.

I have a variable $jurisdiction that has spaces. It is part of a path that looks like the first line below. It seems that no matter where I put the quotes and which type I use, it will not find the file. How do I put a variable string with spaces into the File to put?

;File "temp_OK_specific\Region_1\Alfalfa County\Globals.gdx"

File "temp_OK_specific\Region_1\$jurisdiction\Globals.gdx"

File 'temp_OK_specific\Region_1\"$jurisdiction"\Globals.gdx'

File "temp_OK_specific\Region_1\"$jurisdiction"\Globals.gdx"

File "temp_OK_specific\Region_1\'$jurisdiction'\Globals.gdx"

That actually makes perfect sense. Thank you. I mean, it is disappointing because that would have saved about 2000 conditional statements, but it is crystal clear.

Is there some clever have the contents of a droplist build part of a path? Other than conditionally.

${if} $jurisdiction == "Alfalfa County"

File temp_OK_specific\Region_1\Alfalfa_Co\Globals.gdx

Are you simply looking for this?
!define Client "Alfalfa County"
File "temp_OK_specific\Region_1\${Client}\Globals.gdx"

Thanks for your time. I tried various forms of this without success.

What I am trying to do, is have the user select from "A County" and "B County" in a droplist and then set the File to "path/A County/file.gdx". As it stands, I can sucessfully do Get_Text to determine what they selected then use conditional statements to build the path statically. I would love to put what they select, say "A County", directly into the path without to much logic, but the space seems to cause a problem I cannot overcome.

Here is the code:

Function dialogSelectJurisdiction



  nsDialogs::Create 1018

  Pop $dialogSelectJurisdiction



  ${If} $dialogSelectJurisdiction == error

    Abort

  ${EndIf}



  !insertmacro MUI_HEADER_TEXT "Templates - " "Selecting Jurisdiction"



  ${NSD_CreateLabel} 15u 8u 261u 19u "Please choose your response jurisdiction."

  Pop $dialogSelectJurisdiction_label



  ${NSD_CreateDropList} 12u 30u 140u 23u ""

  Pop $dialogSelectJurisdiction_selection



  ; Based on Region

  ${if} $region_1 == ${BST_CHECKED}

    ${NSD_CB_AddString} $dialogSelectJurisdiction_selection "Alfalfa County"

    ${NSD_CB_AddString} $dialogSelectJurisdiction_selection "Texas County"

    ${NSD_CB_SelectString} $dialogSelectJurisdiction_selection "Alfalfa County"

  ${elseif} $region_2 == ${BST_CHECKED}

    ${NSD_CB_AddString} $dialogSelectJurisdiction_selection "City of Stillwater"

    ${NSD_CB_AddString} $dialogSelectJurisdiction_selection "Osage County"

    ${NSD_CB_SelectString} $dialogSelectJurisdiction_selection "City of Stillwater"

  ${endif}



  nsDialogs::Show



FunctionEnd



Function dialogSelectJurisdictionLeave



  ${NSD_GetText} $dialogSelectJurisdiction_selection $jurisdiction



FunctionEnd



  ; Oklahoma Region

  ${if} $region_1 == ${BST_CHECKED}

    File temp_OK_specific\Region_1\0000005Z.CSI

    ${if} $jurisdiction == "Alfalfa County"

      File temp_OK_specific\Region_1\Alfalfa_Co\Globals.gdx

    ${elseif} $jurisdiction == "Texas County"

      File temp_OK_specific\Region_1\Texas_Co\Globals.gdx

    ${endif}

  ${elseif} $region_2 == ${BST_CHECKED}

    File temp_OK_specific\Region_2\0000005Z.CSI

    ${if} $jurisdiction == "City of Stillwater"

      File temp_OK_specific\Region_2\Stillwater\Globals.gdx

    ${elseif} $jurisdiction == "Osage County"

      File temp_OK_specific\Region_2\Osage_Co\Globals.gdx

    ${endif}

  ${endif}

You can do it like that, or with sections or labels, but you can't extract a file without hardcoding its source path, so there aren't any shortcuts here that I can think of. You could use a zip file, then you could use variables for extraction, e.g. with Nsisunz plugin.

If you don't like the zip idea, this can be an alternative to stacking up conditional statements:

!define NUM_SECTIONS X ;total number of sections

Section /o "Alfalfa County" ; section name = droplist string

File temp_OK_specific\Region_1\Alfalfa_Co\Globals.gdx

SectionEnd

...

You can move the sections to a .nsh so they don't clutter up the script.
To select the appropriate section based on droplist selection:

StrCpy $0 0

SelectSectionLoop:

SectionGetText $0 $1

StrCmp $1 $jurisdiction 0 +5

SectionGetFlags $0 $1

IntOp $1 $1 | 1

SectionSetFlags $0 $1

Goto SelectSectionEnd

IntOp $0 $0 + 1

IntCmp $0 ${NUM_SECTIONS} 0 SelectSectionLoop

SelectSectionEnd: