Vista - Re: Finding a File by the Extension.

"jhoy" <jaredhoy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8a839321-21d4-456d-ab83-2f99bf90e173@xxxxxxI can see that you're running one of four external programs:
- C:\Program Files\Avaya\Avaya IP Agent\IpAgent.exe
- C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\CSG
Systems\acsr.lnk
- C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\CSG Systems\nt
acsr.lnk
- C:\Program Files\WallData\MFRAME\rumbaprt.exe

None of them appears to be a VB Script program that searches for a file by
name, in spite of what you say.

"jhoy" <jaredhoy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:892f10fa-58a5-494c-97b7-c4b8ae6a98ac@xxxxxx
On Apr 24, 6:53 pm, "Jon Wallace" <i...@xxxxxx> wrote:Exactly my reaction...

<snip>
OK, then, but *which* .WPM file do you want to deal with, the first one your
script finds? And where will your script need to look - in the current
user's profile, the local hard drive, on a server share, on the internet?

And next, what is a .WPM file, a word perfect macro? or something to do with
Rumba?
I see, or rather, I can sort of imagine, that you could configure that
executable to run the desired .wpm file automatically, but that would cause
other problems, so you want to run the executable and get it to process the
desired .wpm file.
I am beginning to think you should have posted your question in a RUMBAPRT
newsgroup, where people might be more likely to understand the vagaries of
this apparently problematic application.
Actually, it sounds more like you are not quite sure yourself.

Do you want to find a file (or set of files, or the first file) matching
*.wpm as you sort of said before, or do you only need to grab the extension?
If the latter, here is the extension: "WPM", so just grab it (whatever that
means).
That snippet does not search for rumbaprt.exe; it merely checks to see
whether or not a file by that name at a particular location. The difference
between "rumbaprt.exe" and "*.wmp" is that one is a literal filename and the
other is a wildcard.

The .fileExists method does not suppport wildcards, but even if it did it
wouldn't suit your purpose, as you would still need to determine what the
"*" stands for.

Perhaps if you would indicate where this file might be found and what its
name might be, someone will suggest a solution.

/Al

"jhoy" <jaredhoy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:3a27daaa-8d5c-489a-a2f8-7d4a28ae5220@xxxxxx
On Apr 25, 10:31 pm, "Al Dunbar" <aland...@xxxxxx> wrote:<snip>
OK, so this starts to make a bit of sense. If you leave out the whys and the
wherefores, the rumba-specific aspects, a bit of vagueness, and the various
comments about the complexity of your problem, it finally all boils down to
this:

Your script just needs to determine the path to any file matching *.wpm in
folder "C:\Program Files\WallData\MFRAME\". Had you asked it that way from
the start, you would likely already have been given an answer.

There are a number of ways to accomplish this, including a pure vbscript
solution (given in pseuco-code):

wpmname = ""
bind to the folder
for each file in its files object
if the extension of the filename is "wpm" then
wpmname = pathname of the file
end if
next

/Al

Al Dunbar wrote:thevarioustoJust in case multiple .wpm file might exist, I would include a counter to
abort the script with a list of files creating a conflict.

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Todd Vargo
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"Todd Vargo" <tlvargo@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uC%23zDBsxJHA.1196@xxxxxxNormally, I'd agree, but the OP stated that only one file can be the correct
one, and it can only appear as a result of running the application that
determines which is the correct one.

If it did find more than one file, the question would be what it should do
about it. It could check the file dates and use the oldest or the newest, it
could look it up in some central DB that might exist, it could ask the user,
or it could just abort with an error message submitted to their IT
department to apply a fix. But we'll likely never find out which is most
appropriate.


/Al

Il giorno Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:40:27 -0700 (PDT), jhoy <jaredhoy@xxxxxx> ha scritto:What about shell-ing a dir command?

WSHShell.Run "%comspec% /c dir c:\*.wpm /s/b > & tmpfile.txt",0, True

'then read the result of the search.
Set oFile = fso.OpenTextFile("tmpfile.txt")
WPMFiles = oFile.ReadAll
oFile.Close
fso.DeleteFile "tmpfile.txt"
songslist = Split(WPMFiles, vbCrLf)

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