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Reading a string that has a slash in it... - 5/30/2007 7:38:17 PM

tsutton

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Hi all, wondered if I could pick your brain...

I have this simple script, where I want to read the registry and return what is inside there.

quote:

Set WSHShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Dim RegKey, String

RegKey = "HKCU\Software\ASoftware\ConfigList\MySettings\"
String = WSHShell.RegRead(RegKey & "xyz\abc")
WScript.echo "The string in this is: " & string

But it's not working - it just returns an error message of "Invalid root in registry key" 80070002

However if I rename the registry name from xyz\abc to xyz it works OK. But the software I am using is hardcoded (I didn't make it) to use xyz\abc so I need to read that and output whatever is in there.

I have tried

quote:

String = WSHShell.RegRead(RegKey & ""xyz\abc"")

quote:

String = WSHShell.RegRead(RegKey & "xyz\\abc")

quote:

String = WSHShell.RegRead(RegKey & ""xyz\\abc"")

None of them worked.

When I exported this bit of registry, it looks like this

quote:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ASoftware\ConfigList\MySettings]
"xyz\\abc"="value"

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Tony

< Message edited by tsutton -- 5/30/2007 7:39:42 PM >

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RE: Reading a string that has a slash in it... - 5/30/2007 9:09:08 PM 1 votes

ginolard

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Read it with WMI instead

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RE: Reading a string that has a slash in it... - 5/30/2007 9:16:46 PM

tsutton

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That worked, thanks!

I'm VERY new with WMI - throw me the keywords/codes for registry writing with WMI and I'll get on with the research.

Thanks again.

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RE: Reading a string that has a slash in it... - 5/30/2007 9:34:28 PM

tsutton

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Sorted now... using the SetStringValue - works great. :D

I used this
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2cc30a64-ea15-4661-8da4-55bbc145c30e&DisplayLang=en

to find the available code - very useful!

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RE: Reading a string that has a slash in it... - 5/30/2007 9:46:43 PM

ginolard

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http://www.activexperts.com/activmonitor/windowsmanagement/adminscripts/registry/

That site gives you, pretty much, every registry reading/writing script template you'll ever need.

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