vbs equivalent of FINDSTR

[Raymond]

Someone has an idea of what could be the vbScript equivalent of FINDSTR ?,
except running it within a vbScript (which is what I'm doing now)

FINDSTR is quite powerfull and very fast, so a vb equivalent would be nice.

Thanks
Raymond

[Steve Fulton]

A clue about what you're trying to accomplish would help.

You can invoke findstr from a VBScript:

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run "%comspec% /c findstr ... > temp.txt", 0, True

Then you can use the FSO to read temp.txt for the results.

Other than that you're going to have to read the file(s) in question and use
InStr or a regular expression to find the string(s) you're looking for.

Windows Script Documentation
http://download.microsoft.com/download/winscript56/Install/5.6/W982KMeXP/EN-US/scrdoc56en.exe

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[Raymond]

I'm preparing for a migration, where the server name will change. To be a
bit pro-active, I'm trying to find references to the "old" servers (UNCs
like \\SERVER\xxx) in all instances of MS-Office documents (txt, doc, xls,
ppt, mdb)
So far I'm using the syntax you mention but I was wondering if there were a
better way, ie more vbScript like.
I thought, if FINDSTR can do it so fast, there must be some API, so maybe
there is a vbScript equivalent

Thanks for the reply
Raymond

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