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Edit a REG File

 Keywords: REG .REG EDIT PARSE EXPORT REGISTRY SEARCH REPLACE FILEGETW FILEPUTW UNICODE

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Question:

I am trying to parse an reg file I exported from the registry then changed it to a test file. I want to search for the string string "DefaultUsername"="n02luser" in that file to "DefaultUsername"="Tim" or whatever.

Answer:

Ah yes, the reason you are probably having an issue is because .REG files are actually Unicode ( nulls delimit each character).

To see this, simple open the exported .reg file using the FileBrowser tool provided with WinBatch and view in Hex mode. You will see that each character is delimited with a 00 (null). This tells you that it is a Unicode file.

We have added a lot of Unicode support to WinBatch.

Here is some sample code that should help:

;=========Modify these variables as needed==============
find = 'n02luser'          ;Enter current login name here (Case Sensitive)
replace = 'Tim'            ;Enter new login name here
infilename = DirScript():'input.reg'
outfilename = DirScript():'output.reg'

; Read the unicode reg file into a WIL variable
indata = FileGetW(infilename)

; Replace all instances of a string
outdata = StrReplace(indata, find, replace)

; Write the WIL variable to a unicode reg file
FilePutW(outfilename, outdata)
Exit

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Article ID:   W18227

Filename:   Edit a REG File.txt

File Created: 2009:09:03:11:41:28

Last Updated: 2009:09:03:11:41:28