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LinkSisco
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Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2002 7:19 pm Post subject: Only reading from part of an input, help

Ok, say i have an exe that runs from switchs... and i enter into the cmd prompt "exename.exe word:something" how could i get my program to remove the word: leaving just something? ps im using vds 3... Thanks.

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Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2002 7:56 pm Post subject:

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Well if the input will always be "word:something" then you can remove word: from %1.

Code:

REM %1 holds word:something
%%Word = @SUBSTR(%1,6,@LEN(%1))
REM %%Word will now hold everything after word:, which is "something"
info %%Word

Hope that makes sense.
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LinkSisco
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Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2002 8:01 pm Post subject:

Perfect thank you.

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