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For example, the variable name is: strcmd, and the value needs to be 'notepad.exe', not "'notepad.exe'". How can this be done? I looked through a lot of help files and couldn't find it, very depressed. If any expert knows, thanks.

[ Last edited by bapala on 2006-11-9 at 08:21 AM ]

What does this have to do with vbs?

strcmd='notepad.exe'

Didn't understand what the OP meant. Just wrote one blindly.

What the boss means is to periodically kill a process, for example notepad.exe. Since the boss hasn't decided on the name yet, I need to use strcmd here in place of the process name, so I want the value of strcmd to be 'notepad.exe', not "'notepad.exe'". If I write it like strcmd='notepad.exe', VBS treats it as a comment and it becomes strcmd=

Originally posted by electronixtar at 2006-11-8 07:04:
strcmd='notepad.exe'

Didn't understand what the OP meant. Just wrote one blindly.

Originally posted by bapala at 2006-11-9 04:23:
What the boss means is to periodically kill a process, for example notepad.exe. Since the boss hasn't decided on the name yet, I need to use strcmd here in place of the process name, so I want the value of strcmd to be 'notepad.exe'＠...

It's exactly because adding a ' turns it into a comment, so you need to add a " outside the '

Oh, that's what you mean. Too simple. msgbox "'" won't turn into a comment, right?

strcmd="'notepad.exe'"

Re bapala:
As the several posters above said, a ' wrapped in quotation marks will not be treated as a comment.
Also, if you run into characters that seem hard to handle, you can try using the chr function instead. For example:
strCmd = Chr(39) & "notepad.exe" & chr(39)

As for terminating a process, there is no rule saying you must add single quotes on both sides of the process name. I think you're probably using the select xxx from win32_process where .... statement in the execquery method. I suggest you change it to one of the following:
: strProcess = "notepad.exe" for each x in getobject("winmgmts:win32_process").instances_ if ucase(x.name) = ucase(strProcess) then x.Terminate next
: strProcess = "notepad.exe" for each x in getobject("winmgmts:").instancesof("win32_process") if ucase(x.name) = ucase(strProcess) then x.Terminate next
Or you can use the wscript.arguments object to obtain the name of the process to be terminated through parameters.

None of the above code has been tested; if there are errors, please debug and modify it yourself.

Moderator expert, thank you. I was using it in an SQL statement, so I needed to use 'notepad.exe' and couldn't use "'notepad.exe'" or chr() & "notepad.exe" & chr(). But the other two methods the moderator gave are workable.
Also thanks to all the brothers above!

Originally posted by 3742668 at 2006-11-9 08:06:
Re bapala:
As the several posters above said, a ' wrapped in quotation marks will not be treated as a comment.
Also, if you run into characters that seem hard to handle, you can try using the chr function instead. For example:
strCmd = ... [ Last edited by bapala on 2006-11-9 at 08:15 AM ]

I was using it in an SQL statement, so I needed to use 'notepad.exe' and couldn't use "'notepad.exe'" or chr() & "notepad.exe" & chr(). But the other two methods the moderator gave are workable.
Also thanks to all the brothers above!

1. That's not called SQL, it's called WQL. Although Microsoft officially says it is a subset of SQL, it is obvious that it differs from SQL in fairly clear ways.
2. I suggest you read more basic articles. From your reply, it's clear that your concept of variables is still not very clear, and you're not very familiar with VBS script syntax either. Otherwise you'd discover that even when using the execquery method, you still don't need to add ' on both sides when assigning a value to the variable.