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Global Variables

Applies to: wmGlob1.dll

The following variables are available whenever the ErsGlobStuff, ErsGlobStuff4Script or ErsGlobStuff4ScriptAll method of the wmGlob1.dll is used to replace % variables in a string with their appropriate value:

Variables

Variable

Description

%USERID%, %NTUSER% NT User ID

%APPPATH% Application path

%DATE% Actual date in default short format

%TIME% Actual time in default short format

%NOWxxx% Date and time in specified format:
yy, yyyy ... year 2 or 4 digits
mm, m    ... month with or without leading zero
dd, d    ... day with or without leading zero
w        ... weekday (1-7 = Sunday-saturday
ww       ... week of the year
hh, h    ... hour with or without leading zero
nn, n    ... minute with or without leading zero
ss, s    ... second with or without leading zero

%TIMESTAMP% Timestamp in form yyyymmdd.hhnnss

%COMPUTER%, %HOST%, %COMPUTERNAME% Host/Computer name

%PROCESSID% Current process id

%COUNTER% A counter counted up from 0 in hex since application was started

%SHORTID% Current process id + counter in hex

%DRIVESERIALNO% C drives serial number (unique)

%GUID% GUID without separation characters

%GUIDEX% GUID with separation characters

%UID%, %IDENTIFIER% Hostname + timestamp + counter

%SHORTUID% Hostname + process id + counter

%STANDARDID% Hostname + timestamp (yymmddhhnnss) + counter

%STDITEMID% A new 25 character UID including hostname for different kinds of items

%TEMPDIR% Temporary files folder (usually c:\Temp\)

%WINDIR% Windows directory (usually c:\WinNT, c:\Windows etc.)

%SYSTEMDIR% Windows system directory (usually c:\WinNT\System32 etc.)

%APPDIR% Application directory

%APPDATADIRCOMMON% Common Application data directory, usually "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data" or "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users\Anwendungsdaten" or similar (according to OS language).

%APPDATADIRUSER% User specific application data directory, usually "C:\Documents and Settings\<UserID>\Application Data" or "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\<UserID>\Anwendungsdaten" or similar (according to OS language).

%CRLF% Chr(13) & Chr(10) (=\r\n, =carriage return + line feed)

%CR% Chr(13) (=\r, =carriage return)

%LF% Chr(10) (=\n, =line feed)

%QM% Chr(34) (=", =Quotation mark)

%TAB% Tab character (ASCII character 9)

%TABSn% Insert spaces until column n

%APPERRORS% Number of application errors that occured meanwhile

%APPERRORMSG% Application errors message text

%APPWARNINGS% Number of application warnings that occured meanwhile

%APPWARNINGMSG% Application warnings message text

%STDPRINTER% Name of the printer currently defined as standard

%STDPRINTERNAME% Name of the printer currently defined as standard

%STDPRINTERDRIVER% Drivername used by the printer currently defined as standard

%STDPRINTERPORT% Port of the printer currently defined as standard

%INPUT.s|d% Displays a user input box when the variable is resolved where s is the question or label displayed to the user in front of the input box and d is a default value.

%GETINI.s|k|f% Inifile setting (s=section, k=key, f=filename); If f="" then the applications default inifile is assumed

%GETREG.k|h|s% Registry setting (k=key, h=hive, s=setting); k can be one of HKLM, HKCU, CKCR, HKCC, HKDD, HKPD, HKU. HKLM is the default in case of an empty or invalid key.

%GETSTR.k(s)%
Get special information string where k is a keyword and s is the parameter string. The following keywords can be used:

FILE ... replaced with content of file s if exists otherwise empty string
FILEEXT ... file extension of s (without "."; s interpreted as filename)
FILENAME ... file name (without path; s interpreted as filename)
FNAMEONLY ... file name without path and extension (s interpreted as filename)
FULLPATH ... full path (with drive; s interpreted as filename)
PATH ... path without drive (s interpreted as filename)
CHECKFILE ... 1 if file s exists, 0 if not
CHECKDIR ... 1 if folder s exists, 0 if not
EXIST ... 1 if folder or file s exists, 0 if not
UNCFILENAME ... UNC filename (with starting "\\"; s interpreted as filename)
LEGALFILENAME ... converts illegal filename chars to "_"
FILELEN ... length of file in bytes
EXCLACCESS ... 1 if exclusive access given, 0 if not
FREEHDSPACE ... free HD space of drive s in bytes
LEN ... Length in bytes of s
4HTML ... HTML encode s
FROMHTML ... replace HTML tags with normal chars
TRIM ... Remove leading and trailing spaces
UCASE ... convert to upper case
LCASE ... convert to lower case
VAL ... strip trailing non numerical characters
INT ... integer value
HEX ... convert value to hex value
BIN2INT ... integer value of binary coded string ("0101...")
INT2BIN ... binary coded string ("0101") of integer value
BIN2LNG ... same as BIN2INT for numbers>32767
LNG2BIN ... same as INT2BIN with more leading zeros
DECTO36 ... Number coded in base36 (0-9, A-Z)
DECTO62 ... Number coded in base62 (0-9, A-Z, a-z)
CHR ... Character with ASCII value s
ASC ... ASCII value of s (only first character)
ISODATETIME ... Guess date format and return in ISO (date+time)
ISODATE ... Guess date format and return in ISO format (date)
ISOTIME ... Guess date format and return in ISO format (time)
SHORTDATE ... Guess date format and return default format (date)
SHORTDATETIME ... Guess date format and return default (date+time)
FORMAT ... s must be of the form "f|a" and result is the string a reformatted using format string f. The available format characters are identical as used in Visual Basic.
LEFT ... s must be of the form "w|n" and result is the left n characters of the string w
RIGHT ... s must be of the form "w|n" and result is the right n characters of the string w
MID ... s must be of the form "w|n|m" and result is n characters of the string w beginning with character n. If m is missing all the rest is returned
REPLACE ... s must be of the form "w|a|b" and result is the string w where occurrences of a have been replaced with b (case insensitive search).
REPLACEC ... Same as REPLACE but case sensitive search for a.
EVAL ... Evaluate vbscript code where s is code or a vbs filename.
LSIDE ... s must be of the form "w|m" and result is the left side before string m
RSIDE ... s must be of the form "w|m" and result is the right part after first occurrence of string m
LSIDEFIRST ... s must be of the form "w|m" where m can be one or more strings separated by space (" "). The result is the left side of w before the first occurrence of any of the characters/strings in m.
RSIDEFIRST ... s must be of the form "w|m" where m can be one or more strings separated by space (" "). The result is the right side of w after the first occurrence of any of the characters/strings in m.
LSIDELAST ... s must be of the form "w|m" where m can be one or more strings separated by space (" "). The result is the left side of w before the last occurrence of any of the characters/strings in m.
RSIDELAST ... s must be of the form "w|m" where m can be one or more strings separated by space (" "). The result is the right side of w after the last occurrence of any of the characters/strings in m.
PART ... s must be of the form "w|n|m" and result is the n. substring item where string m is the separation string between items
LINK2FILE ... s must be a filename which is converted into a url link that can be used in HTML files.
FILENAMEFROMLINK ... s must be an url link used in HTML files which is converted to a filename (if a file link otherwise original link is preserved).
ISERR ... result is 1 if the string s can be found in application errors descriptions else result is 0
ISWRN ... result is 1 if the string s can be found in application warnings descriptions else result is 0
NOTISERR ... result is 0 if the string s can be found in application errors descriptions else result is 1
NOTISWRN ... result is 0 if the string s can be found in application warnings descriptions else result is 1

%IF c THEN t[ ELSE f]% Examines condition c and resolves to string t if condition is true or to string f if condition is false. For details see conditions.

Variable	Description
%USERID%, %NTUSER%	NT User ID
%APPPATH%	Application path
%DATE%	Actual date in default short format
%TIME%	Actual time in default short format
%NOWxxx%	Date and time in specified format: yy, yyyy ... year 2 or 4 digits mm, m ... month with or without leading zero dd, d ... day with or without leading zero w ... weekday (1-7 = Sunday-saturday ww ... week of the year hh, h ... hour with or without leading zero nn, n ... minute with or without leading zero ss, s ... second with or without leading zero
%TIMESTAMP%	Timestamp in form yyyymmdd.hhnnss
%COMPUTER%, %HOST%, %COMPUTERNAME%	Host/Computer name
%PROCESSID%	Current process id
%COUNTER%	A counter counted up from 0 in hex since application was started
%SHORTID%	Current process id + counter in hex
%DRIVESERIALNO%	C drives serial number (unique)
%GUID%	GUID without separation characters
%GUIDEX%	GUID with separation characters
%UID%, %IDENTIFIER%	Hostname + timestamp + counter
%SHORTUID%	Hostname + process id + counter
%STANDARDID%	Hostname + timestamp (yymmddhhnnss) + counter
%STDITEMID%	A new 25 character UID including hostname for different kinds of items
%TEMPDIR%	Temporary files folder (usually c:\Temp\)
%WINDIR%	Windows directory (usually c:\WinNT, c:\Windows etc.)
%SYSTEMDIR%	Windows system directory (usually c:\WinNT\System32 etc.)
%APPDIR%	Application directory
%APPDATADIRCOMMON%	Common Application data directory, usually "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data" or "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users\Anwendungsdaten" or similar (according to OS language).
%APPDATADIRUSER%	User specific application data directory, usually "C:\Documents and Settings\<UserID>\Application Data" or "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\<UserID>\Anwendungsdaten" or similar (according to OS language).
%CRLF%	Chr(13) & Chr(10) (=\r\n, =carriage return + line feed)
%CR%	Chr(13) (=\r, =carriage return)
%LF%	Chr(10) (=\n, =line feed)
%QM%	Chr(34) (=", =Quotation mark)
%TAB%	Tab character (ASCII character 9)
%TABSn%	Insert spaces until column n
%APPERRORS%	Number of application errors that occured meanwhile
%APPERRORMSG%	Application errors message text
%APPWARNINGS%	Number of application warnings that occured meanwhile
%APPWARNINGMSG%	Application warnings message text
%STDPRINTER%	Name of the printer currently defined as standard
%STDPRINTERNAME%	Name of the printer currently defined as standard
%STDPRINTERDRIVER%	Drivername used by the printer currently defined as standard
%STDPRINTERPORT%	Port of the printer currently defined as standard
%INPUT.s\|d%	Displays a user input box when the variable is resolved where s is the question or label displayed to the user in front of the input box and d is a default value.
%GETINI.s\|k\|f%	Inifile setting (s=section, k=key, f=filename); If f="" then the applications default inifile is assumed
%GETREG.k\|h\|s%	Registry setting (k=key, h=hive, s=setting); k can be one of HKLM, HKCU, CKCR, HKCC, HKDD, HKPD, HKU. HKLM is the default in case of an empty or invalid key.
%GETSTR.k(s)%	Get special information string where k is a keyword and s is the parameter string. The following keywords can be used: FILE ... replaced with content of file s if exists otherwise empty string FILEEXT ... file extension of s (without "."; s interpreted as filename) FILENAME ... file name (without path; s interpreted as filename) FNAMEONLY ... file name without path and extension (s interpreted as filename) FULLPATH ... full path (with drive; s interpreted as filename) PATH ... path without drive (s interpreted as filename) CHECKFILE ... 1 if file s exists, 0 if not CHECKDIR ... 1 if folder s exists, 0 if not EXIST ... 1 if folder or file s exists, 0 if not UNCFILENAME ... UNC filename (with starting "\\"; s interpreted as filename) LEGALFILENAME ... converts illegal filename chars to "_" FILELEN ... length of file in bytes EXCLACCESS ... 1 if exclusive access given, 0 if not FREEHDSPACE ... free HD space of drive s in bytes LEN ... Length in bytes of s 4HTML ... HTML encode s FROMHTML ... replace HTML tags with normal chars TRIM ... Remove leading and trailing spaces UCASE ... convert to upper case LCASE ... convert to lower case VAL ... strip trailing non numerical characters INT ... integer value HEX ... convert value to hex value BIN2INT ... integer value of binary coded string ("0101...") INT2BIN ... binary coded string ("0101") of integer value BIN2LNG ... same as BIN2INT for numbers>32767 LNG2BIN ... same as INT2BIN with more leading zeros DECTO36 ... Number coded in base36 (0-9, A-Z) DECTO62 ... Number coded in base62 (0-9, A-Z, a-z) CHR ... Character with ASCII value s ASC ... ASCII value of s (only first character) ISODATETIME ... Guess date format and return in ISO (date+time) ISODATE ... Guess date format and return in ISO format (date) ISOTIME ... Guess date format and return in ISO format (time) SHORTDATE ... Guess date format and return default format (date) SHORTDATETIME ... Guess date format and return default (date+time) FORMAT ... s must be of the form "f\|a" and result is the string a reformatted using format string f. The available format characters are identical as used in Visual Basic. LEFT ... s must be of the form "w\|n" and result is the left n characters of the string w RIGHT ... s must be of the form "w\|n" and result is the right n characters of the string w MID ... s must be of the form "w\|n\|m" and result is n characters of the string w beginning with character n. If m is missing all the rest is returned REPLACE ... s must be of the form "w\|a\|b" and result is the string w where occurrences of a have been replaced with b (case insensitive search). REPLACEC ... Same as REPLACE but case sensitive search for a. EVAL ... Evaluate vbscript code where s is code or a vbs filename. LSIDE ... s must be of the form "w\|m" and result is the left side before string m RSIDE ... s must be of the form "w\|m" and result is the right part after first occurrence of string m LSIDEFIRST ... s must be of the form "w\|m" where m can be one or more strings separated by space (" "). The result is the left side of w before the first occurrence of any of the characters/strings in m. RSIDEFIRST ... s must be of the form "w\|m" where m can be one or more strings separated by space (" "). The result is the right side of w after the first occurrence of any of the characters/strings in m. LSIDELAST ... s must be of the form "w\|m" where m can be one or more strings separated by space (" "). The result is the left side of w before the last occurrence of any of the characters/strings in m. RSIDELAST ... s must be of the form "w\|m" where m can be one or more strings separated by space (" "). The result is the right side of w after the last occurrence of any of the characters/strings in m. PART ... s must be of the form "w\|n\|m" and result is the n. substring item where string m is the separation string between items LINK2FILE ... s must be a filename which is converted into a url link that can be used in HTML files. FILENAMEFROMLINK ... s must be an url link used in HTML files which is converted to a filename (if a file link otherwise original link is preserved). ISERR ... result is 1 if the string s can be found in application errors descriptions else result is 0 ISWRN ... result is 1 if the string s can be found in application warnings descriptions else result is 0 NOTISERR ... result is 0 if the string s can be found in application errors descriptions else result is 1 NOTISWRN ... result is 0 if the string s can be found in application warnings descriptions else result is 1
%IF c THEN t[ ELSE f]%	Examines condition c and resolves to string t if condition is true or to string f if condition is false. For details see conditions.