Re: VBscript Search and Replace conundrum

From: Roland Hall (nobody_at_nowhere)
Date: 03/15/05

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    "O.G." <aogilmore@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
    news:1110914749.781720.134250@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
    Sure, here is what the INI files look like:

    [Digital_Save]
    ; mode=MCI (default)
    ; mode=ActiveMovie
    mode=MCI
    drive=C:\United\VWCMI\DATA

    Is this the C: being replaced?

    >> Why do you have this in your for...loop?
    >> If UCase(Right(WScript.FullName, Len(WScript.FullName) -
    >> InStrRev(WScript.FullName,"\")­)) <> "CSCRIPT.EXE" Then
    >> Set wshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.­Shell")
    >> wshShell.Run

    To tell the truth, I cribbed this from somebody else's search/replace
    program, and then cobbled together some WMI stuff to determine logical
    drive. There probably is a better way of doing it, as you indicate...

    Ok, if this is a timing issue, verifying the script is being called with
    cscript instead of wscript, and making a call to run it in a shell, would
    definitely be a timing issue. Unless you check the shell for a return, the
    script will continue regardless of what is happening in the shell. If you
    want to keep this, I would put it near the top outside of the For...Next
    loop. 

    -- 
Roland Hall
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