#47941 - 1999-07-09 03:46 AM
How to strip a string....
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I want to make a new variable in windows. The variable is the path to the All Users Profile. %allusersprofile%
Since this path dont exist anywhere in the registry, i use the 'common desktop' key and strip i the '\desktop'. I could not find a way in kix to do this the easy way, so here is the result:$x = ReadValue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders", "Common Desktop")
$d = "Desktop"
if instr("$x", "$d")
$sl = len("$d") + 1
endif
$d = "Skrivebord"
if instr("$x", "$d")
$sl = len("$d") + 1
endif
$kl = len("$x")
$y = $kl - $sl
$AllUsersProfile = substr("$x", 1, $y)
setm "AllUsersProfile=$AllUsersProfile" Any comments, suggestions, questions? ------------------
Magne
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#47942 - 1999-07-12 10:34 AM
Re: How to strip a string....
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Do it Simple:$AllUsersProfile="%systemroot%\Profiles\All Users" Cause Nt has a %systemroot% variable and the Profile is Always located in the SystemRoot, this is the Most simple Sollution to this problem !! (KISS = Keep It Simple Silly) ------------------
Lon Geefshuysen,
www.xs4all.nl/~longeef/NT/KiXtart
lon_geefshuysen@essentium.com
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#47943 - 1999-07-19 01:20 PM
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'%SystemRoot%\Profiles\All Users' is only valid in NT 4.0. It will not work for Windows 2000 or NT 3.51.
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#47944 - 1999-07-20 04:48 AM
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In W2K there already is a ALLUSERSPROFILE system variable.
For W2K you can check if this Variable exists and then use that one:
example
if %allusersprofile%
? "Windows 2000"
Else
$AllUsersProfile="%systemroot%\Profiles\All Users"
EndIfFor NT 3.5X, you need to find the Location where it store's this directory !
(I can't search for it, cause I haven't got any NT 3.5X systems running anymore) ------------------
Lon Geefshuysen,
www.xs4all.nl/~longeef/NT/KiXtart
lon_geefshuysen@essentium.com
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#47945 - 1999-07-20 07:09 AM
Re: How to strip a string....
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Correction on the script:if %allusersprofile%
? "Windows 2000"
$AllUsersProfile=%allusersprofile%
Else
$AllUsersProfile="%systemroot%\Profiles\All Users"
EndIf
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#47946 - 1999-07-20 09:52 AM
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I think the real problem got 'lost' here somewhere. The real problem is not to make the %allusersprofile%, but to 'extract' a part of a string. e.g I have this string:
'this is a string' and want to extract only:
'is a'. How is this done the most easy way?------------------
Magne
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#47947 - 1999-07-23 07:11 AM
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Well to strip a string like 'this is a string', is not very dificult, but what I need to know before I can write an example is what is known about the string. ie: is the wanted part always on the same place?, is the string always the same structure?..if from a string like "C:\WINNT\Profiles\All Users\Desktop" you need only the first part you can use this code to strip out the '\Desktop' example code
$x = ReadValue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders", "Common Desktop")
$d = "\Desktop"
$lx = LEN($x)
$ld = LEN($d) $allusersprofile = SUBSTR($x,1,$lx-$ld) ------------------
Lon Geefshuysen,
www.xs4all.nl/~longeef/NT/KiXtart
lon_geefshuysen@essentium.com
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#47948 - 1999-07-23 08:48 PM
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The example you show here is very alike the script i first posted here. But what it really does is not to extract the string '\desktop', but to remove the last 8 caracters from variable $x. This will not work if the length of the string to extract is unknown. But, then again, what help would it be to extract a pre defined string if it is unknown?  im tired....
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Magne
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