Search for a log based on date

>> There's probably a more direct way of doing this using FileExists

Oh, of course.....brain fart moment.....  :-(

That's true aikimark, but the Format method does not exist in VBScript....

Rob.

strFolder = "C:\Logs"
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
strYear = Year(Date)
strMonth = Right("0" & Month(Date), 2)
strDay = Right("0" & Day(Date), 2)
strLogName = "log." & strYear & "-" & strMonth & "-" & strDay
If objFSO.FileExists(strLogName) Then
	MsgBox strLogName & " was not found in " & strFolder
Else
	MsgBox "Found " & strLogName
End If

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I, too, forgot about the watered-down nature of the VBScript run time environment.  (no Format function)

Ok, thanks I am checking on these and will let you know.

There are a few work-arounds for VBScript folks who find they need to use the Format() function often.  The simplest is to use VB-classic to create an ActiveX DLL that returns the result of the VB Format() function.  Then it is a simple matter of instantiating a variable of that type and use its one and only  method.

Or you can write your own formatting function in code, something like the below....

It's obviously not very "smart", but it could be made to output in multiple formats....

Regards,

Rob.

MsgBox TimeNow(Now)
 
strDate = Left(TimeNow(Now), 4) & Mid(TimeNow(Now), 9, 2) & Mid(TimeNow(Now), 6, 2)
 
MsgBox strDate
 
Function TimeNow(dDateTime)
	TimeNow =	Year(Now) & "-" &_
				Right("00" & Month(Now), 2) & "-" &_
				Right("00" & Day(Now), 2) & "-" &_
				Right("00" & Hour(Now), 2) & "-" &_
				Right("00" & Minute(Now), 2) & "-" &_
				Right("00" & Second(Now), 2)
End Function

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Can you give me the code to look for the particular pattern, the above seems to just check whether the log with date is present.

You could construct a pattern matching string to use with the LIKE operator

For Each objFile In objFSO.GetFolder(strFolder).Files
 If LCase(objFile.Name) Like "Log.2008-10-13*" Then strFoundFile = objFile.Path
Next

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No what I meant is to look for a pattern within the file. So for example I found the file
Log.2008-10-13. Now I need to look for badfetch string within that file:

ex:

@rheasam

You haven't given us any information about the contents or size or format of the file.  I could give you an answer, but I'd rather give you a good answer.

The file is a text file and will always have some content. The lines could like the following


Could not read the file: badfetch error  12:25 13 Oct 2008
Could not retrieve the audio:badtfetch error 12:26 13 Oct 2008


Whenever the badfetch comes I want to print the line and send it as a alert. I will generate a email with that text.

Dim strLine As String
Open "filename" For Input As #1
Open "alertfilename" For Output As #2
Do Until EOF(#1)
  Line Input #1, strLine
  If strLine Like "*badfetch*" Then
    Print #2, strLine
  End If
Loop
Close

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The above is VBA code, try this for VBScript.

Regards,

Rob.

strFolder = "C:\Logs"
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Const intForReading = 1
strYear = Year(Date)
strMonth = Right("0" & Month(Date), 2)
strDay = Right("0" & Day(Date), 2)
strLogName = "log." & strYear & "-" & strMonth & "-" & strDay
If objFSO.FileExists(strLogName) Then
	MsgBox strLogName & " was not found in " & strFolder
Else
	MsgBox "Found " & strLogName
	Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strLogName, intForReading, False)
	While Not objFile.AtEndOfStream
		strLine objFile.ReadLine
		If InStr(strLine, "badfetch") > 0 Then
			WScript.Echo strLine
		End If
	Wend
	objFile.Close
	Set objFile = Nothing
End If
MsgBox "Script has finished."

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