Here's the line I need to run
C:\program.exe switch "quotedstring"
I've tried many attempts of double quotes, double double quotes, and Chr(34) but can't get it working.
objShell.Run """C:\program.exe"" & ""switch"" & Chr(34) & ""quotedstring"" & Chr(34)"
Am I close?
Don't guess around, use a systematic approach.
Here is an "algorithm" for solving your problem:
start with the original string
replace every " by ""
add " at the beginning and " at the end
Now apply this step by step:
Original:
C:\program.exe switch "quotedstring"
Replacing " by ""
C:\program.exe switch ""quotedstring""
Adding " at begin and end:
"C:\program.exe switch ""quotedstring"""
That should do it.
Related
I'm trying to find a way to enhance the reliability of my script. It already works but can be thrown off with a simple extra space in the imported text file.
So I'd like to change my script to Readline if I can find a way to do something like:
Example of text in the .txt file:
FLIGHTS OVER TUSKY PLEASE FILE:
AT OR WEST OF A LINE RBV..LLUND..BAYYS..PUT..DIRECT
FLIGHTS OVER EBONY PLEASE FILE:
AT OR WEST OF A LINE RBV..LLUND..BAYYS..PUT..DIRECT
I know the following doesn't work but if there was a simple modification this would be good.
set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Return = WshShell.Run("C:\Downloads\software\putty.exe -load "testing")
set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\Users\AW\Desktop\Entries1.txt")
strLine = objFile.ReadAll
If InStr(strLine1, "OVER TUSKY PLEASE") and InStr(strLine2, "BAYYS..PUT..DIRECT") Then
trans307="TUSKY"
ind306="4"
WHAT I'M USING NOW:
I edit the text file in notepad++ to FIND & REPLACE "\n" with "" and "\r" with " " and then it's all one text string and I search for strings within that string.
If InStr(strLine, "FLIGHTS OVER TUSKY PLEASE FILE: AT OR WEST OF A LINE ..RBV..LLUND..BAYYS..PUT..DIRECT") _
or InStr(strLine, "FLIGHTS OVER TUSKY PLEASE FILE: AT OR WEST OF A LINE RBV..LLUND..BAYYS..PUT...DIRECT") Then
trans308C="TUSKY"
ind308C="4"
Problem: If the creators of the text file put another space " " anywhere in this line "AT OR WEST OF A LINE RBV..LLUND..BAYYS..PUT..DIRECT" the script will not identify the string. In the above example I have had to create another or InStr(strLine, "") statement with an extra space or with a couple of dots.
UPDATE:
I will try something like:
set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\Users\AW\Desktop\Entries1.txt")
strLine1 = objFile.Readline(1)
strLine2 = objFile.Readline(2)
If InStr(strLine1, "FLIGHTS OVER TUSKY") and InStr(strLine2, "RBV..LLUND..BAYYS..PUT..DIRECT") Then
trans1="TUSKY"
ind1="4"
and see if I can get that to read 2 lines at a time, and loop through the text file.
If you're scared of regex and looking for an alternative, you could create a clunky function to add to your script. Based on your samples, it would seem that fullstops are also never normally used for normal purposes and tend to represent spaces. (I would recommend using Regex instead!)
Using these presumptions, you could create a clunky function like this, that looks for fullstops, and converts them to spaces, removing extra spaces.. Obviously, this relies heavily on your input source files not changing too much - you really should be using a regex to work this stuff out properly.
You could test for the basic expected results using something like the function below.
For example say you had a line of text set in firLine with multiple spaces or fullstops, the function would recognize this:
firLine = "THIS.IS.A.TEST..YOU...SEE MULTIPLE SPACES"
if instr(sanitize(firLine),"THIS IS A TEST YOU SEE MULTIPLE SPACES") then
wscript.echo "Found it"
End If
Here's the clunky function that you could just paste at the end of your script:
Function sanitize(srStr)
Dim preSanitize, srC, spaceMarker
preSanitize = ""
for srC = 1 to len(srStr)
if mid(srStr, srC, 1) = "." then
preSanitize = preSanitize & " "
else
preSanitize = preSanitize & mid(srStr, srC, 1)
End If
spaceMarker = false
sanitize = ""
for srC = 1 to len(preSanitize)
If mid(preSanitize, srC, 1) = " " then
if spaceMarker = false then
sanitize = sanitize & mid(preSanitize, srC, 1)
spaceMarker = true
End If
else
sanitize = sanitize & mid(preSanitize, srC, 1)
spaceMarker = false
End If
Next
End Function
InStr() is a good tool for checking whether a strings contains a fixed/literal string or not. To allow for variation, you should use Regular Expressions (see this or that).
First of all, however, you should work on your specs. Describe in plain words and with some samples what you consider (not) to be a match.
E.g.: A string containing the words "FLIGHTS", "OVER", and "TUSKY" in that order with at least one space in between is a match - "FLIGHTS OVER TUSKY", "FLIGHTS OVER TUSKY"; "FLIGHTS OVER TUSKANY" is a 'near miss' - what about "AIRFLIGHTS OVER TUSKY"?
GREAT NEWS! I finally figured out how to do this.
Here is a snippet from "Entries1.txt"
FLIGHTS OVER BRADD KANNI PLEASE FILE:
VIA J174.RIFLE..ACK..DIRECT
OR RBV.J62.ACK..DIRECT
FLIGHTS OVER KANNI WHALE PLEASE FILE:
VIA J174.RIFLE..ACK..DIRECT OR
FLIGHTS OVER WHALE PLEASE FILE:"
ETC, ETC
set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\Users\AW\Desktop\Entries1.txt")
Do until objFile.AtEndOfStream
firLine = objFile.ReadLine
If InStr(firLine, "FLIGHTS OVER KANNI WHALE PLEASE") Then
secLine = objFile.ReadLine
If InStr(secLine, "J174.RIFLE..ACK..DIRECT") Then
'I'm going to change the below once I piece it all together.
WScript.Echo "works"
Else WScript.Echo "Not found"
'cut, paste and modify all my "IF" statements below
End If
End If
loop
I am trying to save this HTML to a HTML file. There are 2 problems with this code.
1. It thinks that the "refresh" part is not part of the string
I have tried a fix for this buy using Chr(34) instead of " but it still bring me onto error 2
2. When I open the HTML File it has quotes around all the text and it looks rubbish
How would I go about fixing these errors? Thanks.
Dim nFileNum as Integer
nFileNum = 4
Open "WebWindow.html" For Output As #nFileNum 'Open the file to put information into
Write #nFileNum, "<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1" />" 'Refresh Script
Write #nFileNum, "<P>10% Through the current test:</p>"
Write #nFileNum, "<p>Invoices 1/20 (processing)</p>"
Write #nFileNum, "<p>POs 0/20 (waiting)</p>"
Close #nFileNum 'Close the File
EDIT:
Using double quotes kind of works but the output in the web window now looks like this:
"" "
10% Through the current test:
" "
Invoices 1/20 (processing)
" "
POs 0/20 (waiting)
"
and in the HTML file it looks like this:
"<meta http-equiv=""refresh"" content=""1"" />"
"<P>10% Through the current test:</p>"
"<p>Invoices 1/20 (processing)</p>"
"<p>POs 0/20 (waiting)</p>"
So I still have to deal with problem 2....
*EDIT EDIT! FIXED *
I fixed problem 1 with the double quotes (Thanks to you guys) and fixed problem 2 myself. Instead of using Write I used Print. Print does the same thing as write but does not put the quotes in the file with the string.
My new working code:
Function WebOutput()
Dim nFileNum As Integer
Dim Line2 As String
Line2 = "<P>10% Through the current test:</p>"
nFileNum = 4
Open "C:\TestPartner\Config\WebWindow.html" For Output As #nFileNum 'Open the file to put information into
Print #nFileNum, "<meta http-equiv=""refresh"" content=""1"" />" 'Refresh Script
Print #nFileNum, Line2
Print #nFileNum, "<p>Invoices 1/20 (processing)</p>"
Print #nFileNum, "<p>POs 0/20 (waiting)</p>"
Close #nFileNum 'Close the File
To escape quotes in VB you do "" so try "<meta http-equiv=""refresh"" content=""1"" />"
Modify your function to replace any quote marks with double quotes in the string before you write it.
string = replace(string, Chr(34), Chr(34) & Chr(34))
Something like that. The should work. Play around with how many Chr(34) & chr(34) & chr(34) if two doesn't work.
You will have to modify your existing code, you can't get around it, but this is the easiest way to do it.
I need to either write a batch file or a vbscript that will rename files. I need to keep everything in the file name up to the second "." but delete what comes after the second dot.
This is a sample of what the file names look like:
nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.xxxxxxxx.dddddddddd.pdf
n= 16 numbers 0-9
x= date in this format ex:02232008
d= 10 numbers 0-9, this is the part of the file name that I want to delete.
I need the d's from the sample above to be deleted but keep the rest of the file name the same. I need to be able to run this batch file on a folder that contains about 3,000 pdf files. It can either be put right back into the same folder or outputted into a different folder.
FOR /F "USEBACKQ delims=. tokens=1-4" %%F IN (`DIR /B /A-D "C:\Path\To\PDFs\"`) DO (
REN "%%~fF.%%G.%%H.%%I" "%%F.%%G.%%I"
)
If you have files that vary in how many periods there are, just need to add a simple argument to count how many period delimiters exist then execute.
In VBScript, you can use something like
' the file paths. hardcoded, but you could alternatively collect these via command line parameters
Const IN_PATH = "path\to\directory"
Const OUT_PATH = "path\to\another\directory"
' check that the directories exist. you could create them instead, but here
' it just throws an error as that's easier
dim fso: set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
if not fso.FolderExists(IN_PATH) then
err.raise 1,, "Path '" & IN_PATH & "' not found"
end if
if not fso.FolderExists(OUT_PATH) then
err.raise 1,, "Path '" & OUT_PATH & "' not found"
end if
dim infolder: set infolder = fso.GetFolder(IN_PATH)
dim file
for each file in infolder.files
dim name: name = file.name
dim parts: parts = split(name, ".")
' we're expecting a file format of a.b.c.pdf
' so we should have 4 elements in the array (zero-indexed, highest bound is 3)
if UBound(parts) = 3 then
' rebuild the name with the 0th, 1st and 3rd elements
dim newname: newname = parts(0) & "." & parts(1) & "." & parts(3)
' use the move() method to effect the rename
file.move fso.buildpath(OUT_PATH, newname)
else
' log the fact that there's an erroneous file name
WScript.Echo "Unexpected file format: '" & name & "'"
end if
next 'file
You would run it in a batch file thus, redirecting output to a log file
cscript rename-script.vbs > logfile.txt
This assumes that you can simply rely on the period to delimit the parts of the file name rather than the specifics of the format of the delimited parts.
To rearrange the date, which I think is in the parts(1) array element, you can simply extract each bit of the string because it's in a specific format:
'date in format mmddyyyy
dim month_, day_, year_, date_
month_ = left(parts(1), 2)
day_ = mid(parts(1), 3, 2)
year_ = right(parts(1), 4)
date_ = year_ & month_ & day_ ' now yyyymmdd
so when rebuilding the filename, you can replace parts(1) with the new formatted date
dim newname: newname = parts(0) & "." & date_ & "." & parts(3)
Using StringSolver, a semi-automatic renaming tool, just rename the first file, check that the generalized renaming is ok, and then accept it on all other files.
> move 1234567890123456.02232008.1946738250.pdf 1234567890123456.02232008.pdf
Get the explanation:
> move --explain
the file name until the end of the second number + the extension
If you are satisfied, you can run the semi-automated tool using move --auto or the succint version:
> move
DISCLAIMER: I am a co-author of this free software made for academic purposes.
I have a do a project for school with classic asp which I ave never used before.
I keep getting this syntax error:
Expected end of statement
set Y=server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection");
---------------------------------------------^
The asp code i'm trying to execute is:
<%
set Y=server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
X = "DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}; DBQ= " & Server.MapPath(".\account.mdb")Y.open X
user=request.Form("username")
set useraccount=Y.Execute("select * from logintable where username='" & user & "'")
if useraccount.eof then
Response.Redirect("41697hw1noaccount.htm");
else if useraccount.fields[0].passwd == request.Form("pwd") then
Response.Redirect("41697hw1wrongpasswd.htm")
else
Response.Write("<h1>Welcome, " & useraccount.fields[0].fullname & "</h1>")
end if
%>
Thanks so much for your help!
I am not familiar with VBScript, but I think you should not put a ';' at the end of your statement. I think removing the semi-colon will help.
In vbscript the explicit "end-of-line " character is a colon ":"
It is not required in vbscript unless you want to put more than one statement on a physical line.
for example--
Dim myVariable : myVariable = "some string"
I have a vbscript file that is reading a file and sending each line to a terminal program. When it comes to a semicolon in the middle of the string, it splits the semicolon at the string.
I have been using this code for quite sometime with other strings with no problems. There is one string per line in the file the script is reading.
The string in the file that is causing the problem is: 2101;99PSP
Here is the code I am using (with a terminal emulation program called Reflections):
Sub NarcoticOrderableItemTurnOff()
''# Constants used by OpenTextFile()
Const ForReading = 1
Const ForWriting = 2
Const ForAppending = 8
Const ICON_INFO = 64 ''# Information message; displays 'i' icon.
Set wshshell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objTextFile = _
objFSO.OpenTextFile("P:\NarcoticOrderableItems.txt", ForReading)
Session.Transmit "^Orderable Item Edit (CPRS)" & vbCr
Do Until objTextFile.AtEndOfStream
strNextLine = objTextFile.ReadLine
arrC2oderableItemList = Split(strNextLine, ";", 3)
'arrServiceList(0) = Area of Use
'arrServiceList(2) = Printer for that area of use
With Session
.WaitForString "Select ORDERABLE ITEMS NAME:"
.Transmit arrC2oderableItemList(0) & vbCr
.WaitForString "//"
.Transmit "N" & vbCr
.WaitForString "//"
.Transmit vbCr
.WaitForString "//"
.Transmit vbCr
.WaitForString "//"
.Transmit vbCr
End With
Loop
objTextFile.close
Session.MsgBox "All done! C2 Orderable Items turned off!", vbExclamation
''#ErrorHandler:
''# Session.MsgBox Err.Description, vbExclamation + vbOKOnly
End Sub
I think it might have something with the following row of code to do:
arrC2oderableItemList = Split(strNextLine, ";", 3)
If this problem string is the whole line from the file you're reading:
2101;99PSP
The problem is that you're trying to get 3 items from every line and this one only has 2. To account for lines that don't have a 3rd item you should remove the 3rd parameter from your Split function and then check the UBound of the Array before using the 3rd item.
arrC2oderableItemList = Split(strNextLine, ";")
If UBound(arrC2oderableItemList) >= 2 Then
''# There are 3 items or more in the Array (O-based)
''# Can do something with arrC2oderableItemList(2)
Else
''# There are only 2 items (or less) in the Array
''# Do not use arrC2oderableItemList(2)
End If
If you are splitting the lines at semicolons but the text contains extra semicolons, you would have to
search for extra semicolons
change them to a pattern that would not normally be found in the text
split your line
change the pattern from step 2 back to semicolons
Or take the easy route and don't allow extra semicolons in the files your reading.
Posting a few example lines (including the problem line) would allow somebody to help you in writing code to search for the extra semicolons.
If (2101;99PSP) is all that is on the line see Shawn Steward's answer.