Places utility with variables

[Esgrimidor]

I am using this utility Places

then I locate this personalization in the windows registry

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ComDlg32\PlacesBar

And try to personalize the folders with environment variables

But I can't

How can I do ?

I need than when edit the key I can propose path with variables like :

Y:\crono\2012\06.2012\%date%

How can I format the environment variable %date% ?

[Squashman]

The date variable is dependent on your regional settings. Can you please show us the output of the date variable from the cmd prompt.

[Esgrimidor]

It's not possible use directly the output of %DATE%.

And I can't vary without affecting other programs I have.

What I need is reformat the output to the criteria : yyyy  2012
mm 06
dd 30

By example 30.06.2012
In my system the default configuration I can't change is 30/06/2012

Best Regards

[BC_Programmer]

if you want to expand environment variables use the REG_EXPAND_SZ registry data type instead of the REG_SZ type. Unfortunately I think the program accessing those values would still be using REG_SZ as the data type.

[carlsomo]

if %date% is 30/06/2012 and you want 30.06.2012 then
set today=%date:/=.%
echo %today%
30.06.2012

or if you want yyyy, mm, dd in variables then
set yyyy=%date:~0,4%
set mm=%date:~5,2%
set dd=%date:~8,2%
set today=%yyyy%.%mm%.%dd%

the above will work if the %date% variable is always in that format (yyyyy/mm/dd)
it gets more complicated if you want code to handle any common format
it gets more complicated if you (or your user) does not have admin access to the registry
I have the batch code done to do all this if anyone is interested

[Esgrimidor]

if %date% is 30/06/2012 and you want 30.06.2012 then
set today=%date:/=.%
echo %today%
30.06.2012

or if you want yyyy, mm, dd in variables then
set yyyy=%date:~0,4%
set mm=%date:~5,2%
set dd=%date:~8,2%
set today=%yyyy%.%mm%.%dd%

the above will work if the %date% variable is always in that format (yyyyy/mm/dd)
it gets more complicated if you want code to handle any common format
it gets more complicated if you (or your user) does not have admin access to the registry
I have the batch code done to do all this if anyone is interested

Can you put the link to your batch
I am interested.

Best Regards

[Esgrimidor]

Anyone with xp pro sp3 windows system can see the key

I think the Places utilities only take advantage of the prior existence of those keys standard configurated by the OS.

So are alfa numerical keys.

[carlsomo]

@echo off&SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion&goto :start
:GetDate [EnVar]
echo.GetDate [EnVar] Sets date into environment variable, EnVar as: mm-dd-yyyy
echo.Usage: GetDate mdy^&set ymd=%%errorlevel%%, ^(use %% rather than ^^! in command line)
echo.Usage: GetDate mdy^&set ymd=^^!errorlevel^^!, ^(use ^^! rather than %% in script^)
echo.If no argument passed it echo's the date in mm-dd-yyyy format
echo.Returns yyyymmdd in errorlevel regardless if Envar is passed as argument or not
echo.Works on NT/2K/XP/Vista/Win7 machines independent of most regional date settings
EndLocal&exit /b

:start
set p1=%~1&if /i "!p1!" equ "/?" goto :GetDate
if /i "%date%A" lss "A" (set toks=1-3) else (set toks=2-4)
for /f "skip=1 tokens=2-4 delims=(-)" %%a in ('date^<nul') do (
  for /f "tokens=%toks% delims=.-/ " %%d in ('date/t') do (
    set %%a=%%d&set %%b=%%e&set "%%c=%%f"
  )
)
if /i "%mm:~0,1%" gtr "9" call :month_convert mm
if /i 1%mm% lss 20 set "mm=0%mm%"
if /i %yy% lss 100 set "yy=20%yy%"
if defined p1 (
  Endlocal
  call set "%~1=%mm%-%dd%-%yy%"&exit /b %yy%%mm%%dd%
)
EndLocal&echo.%mm%-%dd%-%yy%&exit /b %yy%%mm%%dd%

:month_convert
set "months=Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec"
call set "month=%%%~1%%"
set/a mnum=0
for %%m in (%months%) do set/a mnum+=1&if /i %month% equ %%m call set "%~1=!mnum!"&exit /b

[Esgrimidor]

Going to study

Best Regards

[carlsomo]

Let me know if you find any bugs in it!

I have only tested it in US English formats

[Esgrimidor]

That's is going to be my problem.

I need in spanish format

dd.mm.yyyy
mm.yyyy
yyyy

What can I do ?

I don't understand much the batch language .....

Best Regards

[carlsomo]

if you type:
C:\>date
at the dos prompt with Spanish settings, ie as if you wished to review or change the date what is displayed?

for example in US English:
C:\>date
The current date is: Sat 06/30/12
Enter the new date: (yy-mm-dd)

Also, if you type date/t  at the dos prompt in spanish what do you get?

for example in US English:
C:\>date/t
Sat 06/30/12

if I could see the spanish output from those commands I think I could modify the code to suit your needs
regards

[Squashman]

It would be really great if you could actually shows us the output of this following from the command prompt.

Code: [Select]

C:\>echo %date%
Sat 06/30/2012

C:\>There is a way to make this regionally independent.  It is a ton of of code though to add to your batch file.

[carlsomo]

I think you can modify my batch script by changing these lines:

if defined p1 (
  Endlocal
  call set "%~1=%mm%-%dd%-%yy%"&exit /b %yy%%mm%%dd%
)
EndLocal&echo.%mm%-%dd%-%yy%&exit /b %yy%%mm%%dd%

to this:

if defined p1 (
  Endlocal
  call set "%~1=%yy%.%mm%.%dd%"&exit /b %yy%%mm%%dd%
)
EndLocal&echo.%yy%.%mm%.%dd%&exit /b %yy%%mm%%dd%

then if you put this in your batch:
call getdate.bat ymd
echo %ymd%
you will get 2012.06.30 stored in the ymd varaible

set yyyy=%ymd:~0,4%
set mm=%ymd:~5,2%
set dd=%ymd:~8,2%

now yyyy=2012
mm=06
dd=30

set folder=%yyyy%.%mm%
echo \%folder%\myfile.dat
\2012.06\myfile.dat

does this help??

[Esgrimidor]

if you type:
C:\>date
at the dos prompt with Spanish settings, ie as if you wished to review or change the date what is displayed?

for example in US English:
C:\>date
The current date is: Sat 06/30/12
Enter the new date: (yy-mm-dd)

Also, if you type date/t  at the dos prompt in spanish what do you get?

for example in US English:
C:\>date/t
Sat 06/30/12

if I could see the spanish output from those commands I think I could modify the code to suit your needs
regards

The screenshot with the commands



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