Re: Re: How to read value of a variable being set in a batch file?

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essential.



"Jerold Schulman" <Jerry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 18 Oct 2006 06:39:02 -0700, stembe@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks everyone for their suggestions so far....From what I can tell, I
have 3 options:

1). Write the value to a temp file & then read the temp file (and
delete it) - Doable, but seems inefficient to me.

2). Read value of the environment variable - This will only work if I
set VAR1 as a permanent system variable along with PATH, TEMP, etc.;
and as Tom has mentioned setting VAR1 in the batch script will not work
since it will not be "exported" to the parent process.

3). Echo the variable in my batch script & then use StdOut.Readall to
read it into a string -- This works, but I noticed that the string
contains trailing special characters and I can't seem to figure out
what they are. They look like spaces or blanks, but are not, because
when I try to strip off spaces from the string, it does not work (the
"length" of the string stays the same, even though the actual number of
characters displayed or visible is less). Not sure if they are tabs or
something else.

Is there a way to find out & strip off any special characters from a
string in my scenario?

Thanks,
S
See tip 10922 » How can a Vbscript process each line in the STDOUT
generated from a CMD command or batch?
in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsifaq.com to read each line
individually.



Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
http://www.jsifaq.com

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