Using a variable filter in WQUERY for WMI

I don't undertand the question:  With WMI, one uses a scripting language to, for instance, execute a SQL SELECT statement.  The statement that you pass may include string literals as well as text held in variables.  
Perhaps if you provide some more details about what you are trying to acccomplish, the question will be clarified.

DanRollins:

Attached is an example of an ExecQuery(). What I want to know is how you can do an ExecQuery for WMI with a filter variable for the "Where" instead of the fixed 'anExecutableName.exe'. The idea is to be able to receive a list of processes and then use the ExecQuery() to return the process information for only the processes in the list.

hres = pSvc->ExecQuery(
        bstr_t("WQL"), 
        bstr_t("SELECT * FROM Win32_Process Where Name = 'anExecutableName.exe'"),
        WBEM_FLAG_FORWARD_ONLY | WBEM_FLAG_RETURN_IMMEDIATELY, 
        NULL,
        &pEnumerator);

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You could skip the WHERE clause and just use the enumerator to examine each process.  There is an example here:
   Example: Getting WMI Data from the Local Computer
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa390423.aspx
(though it uses the Win32_OperatingSystem table, the process is similar)
You can focus the result set by using inequality operators in the SQL query syntax, such as:
    ...WHERE Name < 'S"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394054(VS.85).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394605(VS.85).aspx
Perhaps the operator you really want is the LIKE operator which allows you to match character patterns.  For instance:

    ...WHERE Name LIKE "%ABC%"
Which will return process that contain th letters ABC anywhere in the name.  See
   LIKE Operator
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa392263(VS.85).aspx

The solutions proposed are valid but from them the one closer to what I was looking for is the one using the iterator. What I dont like about it is going over all results when they can be filtered from the very begining. Maybe the question should be how to construct the query using a variable outside of _bstr_t()and then plug it in the _bstr-t().

One thing I noticed was that if you try to initialize the variable when you define it the compile fails. But if you define it and then you set its value it will work (see code).  Do you have any idea why this happen.

// This will generate an error
CString sVarToMatch = "ABC" 
 
// This will work fine
CString sVarToMatch;
aVarToMatch = "ABC";

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It's a quirk of the C++ programming language that each statement must be terminated with a semicolon (;).

Sorry for the mistake. The error with the semicolon was only on the message. The actual code does have the semicolon and you get the error.