Reading the output from an exe

[Quantum]

LOL, yep another one. Sorry

I want to have a test that looks at the output from an external program. However this output is not just an errorlevel.

Example.

you execute c:\myapp.exe

On the screen it displays the following

Quantum's New App details
-------------------------------
User Count = 6
Date Engine Started = 23/5/04
Data Waiting to Write = 123,455K

So, what I want to be able to do is read in a part of each line into a variable and then make a comparison to that variable. I quess what I am tring to do is a test like if 25 < User count then test = BAD


I am not expecting hostmon to do this, I simply wanted to know if anyone had any cleaver ideas on this, even a program that could split the different elements of the programs' output into a few seperate files.


Hope this is understandable.

Q[/quote]

[KS-Soft]

Looks like you need to use Active Script or better Shell Script test method.
http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/mfra ... htm#script
http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/mfra ... m#chkShell

Regards
Alex

[Marcus]

I am not expecting hostmon to do this, I simply wanted to know if anyone had any cleaver ideas on this, even a program that could split the different elements of the programs' output into a few seperate files.

Redirect the output to a file (">") and use a for statement on the file. If you redirect the output to the file 'temp.txt', the following code will show the number after the 'User Count =' line.....

Redirect: c:\myapp.exe > temp.txt

Code: Select all

@echo off
for /f "eol=; tokens=1* delims=" %%i in (temp.txt) do (call :ShowUserCount %%i)
goto :EOF

:ShowUserCount
 if /I "%1 %2" == "User Count" echo %3
goto :EOF

This means you have the count available (%3 in ShowUserCount function), which means you can create a script which does all the logic for you (and report the result back to HostMonitor).

[Quantum]

Thanks Marcus

This looks like a batch file to me, is that the case or is it VB script.

Sorry not a progammer
-Q

[Marcus]

It's a batch file

[Quantum]

Thanks



-Q