How escape a pipe ?

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How escape a pipe ?

#1 Post by einstein1969 » 18 Jun 2020 15:34

Hi to all,

I have a problem with this code

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for /f "delims=" %I in ('mshta "about:<OBJECT id=HTMLDlgHelper classid="CLSID:3050F4E1-98B5-11CF-BB82-00AA00BDCE0B"></OBJECT><SCRIPT language="VBSCRIPT">Sub window_onload : a=HtmlDlgHelper.object.openfiledlg("C:\windows.iso", ,"*.iso|","Select"): CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").GetStandardStream(1).WriteLine a : msgbox a : close : end sub</SCRIPT>"') do @echo %I
I need to escape the pipe in the part "*.iso|". I have tried with a classic caret ^ but not work for me.

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Re: How escape a pipe ?

#2 Post by miskox » 19 Jun 2020 01:56

Does it work If you add ^ ?

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for /f "delims=" %I in ('mshta "about:<OBJECT id=HTMLDlgHelper classid="CLSID:3050F4E1-98B5-11CF-BB82-00AA00BDCE0B"></OBJECT><SCRIPT language="VBSCRIPT">Sub window_onload : a=HtmlDlgHelper.object.openfiledlg("C:\windows.iso", ,"*.iso^|","Select"): CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").GetStandardStream(1).WriteLine a : msgbox a : close : end sub</SCRIPT>"') do @echo %I
Saso

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Re: How escape a pipe ?

#3 Post by T3RRY » 19 Jun 2020 03:41

I can't test in full if it's the intended outcome, however an additional escaping of the pipe prevents the syntax error.
So ^^^| as opposed to ^|

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for /f "delims=" %I in ('mshta "about:<OBJECT id=HTMLDlgHelper classid="CLSID:3050F4E1-98B5-11CF-BB82-00AA00BDCE0B"></OBJECT><SCRIPT language="VBSCRIPT">Sub window_onload : a=HtmlDlgHelper.object.openfiledlg("C:\windows.iso", ,"*.iso^^^|","Select"): CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").GetStandardStream(1).WriteLine a : msgbox a : close : end sub</SCRIPT>"') do @echo/"%I"

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Re: How escape a pipe ?

#4 Post by einstein1969 » 19 Jun 2020 13:29

ok
the triple caret ^^^ work well.

Thank you, guy!

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