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Get Path of application from Reg (Run) (win2000)

Hello Experts!

PLease help me, i want to get path of apps in key Run of
registry and result are, for example:

"C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe"
or
"C:\Program Files\McAfee\QuickClean\Plguni.exe" /START
or
mobsync.exe /logon

i want get full path (eg: Remove "", parameter/,...)

ex:
C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe
C:\Program Files\McAfee\QuickClean\Plguni.exe

Thank you.

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Ivanov_G

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z27

ASKER

Yes, but i want to parse string:
"C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe"
to: C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe
(remove " ")

mobsync.exe /logon
to: mobsync.exe ( remove /logon)

Mike Littlewood

StringReplace(yourstring, '"', '', [rfReplaceAll])
will remove those " from the string

Ivanov_G

first as mikelittlewood suggested
StringReplace(yourstring, '"', '', [rfReplaceAll])

and them
ExtractFileName(....) to get the filename without directory and parameters

z27

ASKER

i want to get full path og app, my app need to read registry (autorun) to finding apps register autorun and locating them on harddisk. But 0n win2000 get some string as asked on topic, i donnot know how parse these strings to get exactly their path.

Ivanov_G

check the following functions in Delphi help.

ExtractFileDir
ExtractFileDrive
ExtractFileExt
ExtractFileName
ExtractFilePath

z27

ASKER

hello Ivanov_G, please read my question again!

You cannot Extract...('"C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe"');

or

Extract...('mobsync.exe /logon');

Ivanov_G

You can not get the full path for mobsync.exe, because it is somewhere in %SYSTEM% folder. For other files you can freely use the function I showed above + StringReplace to create some logic to extract the file paths. You can also use FileExists function to check if the specified file exists on the local machine.

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