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white spaces problem - 4/10/2005 10:05:11 PM

disktone

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I am reading several lines from a text file, these are file paths to virtual servers that i need to get the status of.

i read the server.txt into an array then setting the variable cmdstr to = the dos command and line from the text file, however when i use the says file not found, this is because the file path has spaces

this is a example of one line from the servers.txt file

D:\Virtual Machines\BASE2000STD\win2000Serv.vmx

when i run my script i am using the Wscript.Echo to show me the variable cmdstr, which in this example wound be

cmd /c vmware-cmd D:\Virtual Machines\BASE2000STD\win2000Serv.vmx getstate >> status.txt

However it needs to have " " around the line i am reading from the text file, so the actual command would be presented like this

cmd /c vmware-cmd "D:\Virtual Machines\BASE2000STD\win2000Serv.vmx" getstate >> status.txt

Any ideas?? the only thing i can think of is to change the directory name, but that wound cause a lot of problems as there are 15 servers running in that dir

Set objTextFile = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\batch\server.txt", ForReading)
Do Until objTextFile.AtEndOfStream
strNextLine = objTextFile.Readline
vmwareserver = Split(strNextLine , vbCrLf)
For i = 0 to Ubound(vmwareserver)
cmdstr = "cmd /c vmware-cmd "+vmwareserver(i)+" getstate >> c:\batch\status.txt"

Wscript.Echo " command line: " & cmdstr

WshShell.run cmdstr
Next
Loop

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Re: white spaces problem - 4/10/2005 10:32:31 PM

disktone

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All sorted now

cmdstr = "cmd /c vmware-cmd """ & vmwareserver(i) &""" getstate >> c:\batch\status.txt"

(in reply to disktone)

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Re: white spaces problem - 4/11/2005 5:16:40 AM

ralph

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uh... i wonder, why this works. i tried some usual escape sequences (like "executing \"cmd.exe /c dir\"" in a log file, tried """ also. after a while *g i read the documentation but i didn't find something useful.
since then i always use the chr(34) to 'escape' the double quotes.

(in reply to disktone)