A small change

[vefatica]

I noticed a small change; I believe it came with the latest update. TASKLIST now identifies the current TCC like this, for example.

3704  * tcc              14.03  [3704]  v:\

Whereas, in v13 (and I think more recently) it was like this.

 3492* tcc              13.04  [3492]  v:\

I don't mind where the asterisk goes but I don't like the extra word.

P.S. (a suggestion) Yesterday I was struggling a bit with the WORDS in TASKLIST's output and thought it would be a nice touch if @WORD[] accepted open-ended ranges, like this.

v:\> echo %@word[1-,My dog has fleas]
dog has fleas  (desired)

where "N-" gives all words from word N on.
If it's already meant to do that, then it doesn't quite get it right.

v:\> echo %@word[1-,My dog has fleas]
dog has  (actual)

Nor does it do anything consistent.

v:\> echo %@word[0-,My dog has fleas]
My
v:\> echo %@word[2-,My dog has small fleas today]
has small fleas

It seems if you specify "N-", you get N+1 words starting at word N.

 

[Steve Fabian]

You can specify %@word[2-9999,string] to specify words 2 through 9999, which displays the rest of string if it has fewer than 9999 words. Admittedly it is not as nice as your suggestion, but you could already do it many versions ago.

 

[vefatica]

You can specify %@word[2-9999,string] to specify words 2 through 9999, which displays the rest of string if it has fewer than 9999 words. Admittedly it is not as nice as your suggestion, but you could already do it many versions ago.

Yesterday I tried something like that and was convinced it didn't work. This works fine; every line has a WORD_1:

v:\> do l in /p tasklist ( echo %@word[1,%l] )
[System
System
smss
csrss
*** SNIP ***

But when I ask for words 1-2 (or 1-9999) I don't even get word 1. What's happening here?

v:\> do l in /p tasklist ( echo %@word[1-2,%l] )
[System Process]
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
taskhost          Task
dwm              DWM
explorer          Program
ECHO is OFF
winpm-32          Pegasus
powerpro          Physimem
OUTLOOK          RE:
ECHO is OFF
firefox          A
* tcc
ECHO is OFF

 

[Steve Fabian]

Sorry, on my 32b WinXP SP3 TCC 14.03.54 no such problem occurs. My Win7 x64 system is not set up yet...

 

[vefatica]

Sorry, on my 32b WinXP SP3 TCC 14.03.54 no such problem occurs. My Win7 x64 system is not set up yet...

Steve, did you try those exact commands? "1-9999" does work in simpler cases.

 

[Steve Fabian]

Copy and paste...

 

[Frank]

The problem seems to be, that the function @word doesn't handle the error which occurs when you use "1-99" or "0-2" but the string has less words than requested.
But otherwise this works:

echo %@word[4-99,My dog has small fleas today]

No idea.
This is also funny (here I tried it with a textfile):
>do line in @tasklist.txt ( echo %@word[0-2,%line] )
0 [System Process]
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
1948 vmware-usbarbitrator64
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF
ECHO is OFF

The short lines have trailing spaces, e.g. "123 svchost ".
The long ones do not.
Haha:

>do line in @tasklist.txt ( echo %@word[0-2,%@trim[%line]] )
0        [System Process]
4        System
344      smss
508      csrss
560      psxss
580      csrss
592      wininit
644      services
676      winlogon
696      lsass
704      lsm
812      svchost
888      svchost
1004    MsMpEng
524      svchost
392      svchost
904      svchost
1104    svchost
1304    svchost
1408    svchost
1532    spoolsv
1580    svchost
1616    svchost
1752    dsAccessService
1848    svchost
1868    svchost
1964    PassThruSvr
2008    svchost
2032    svchost
1136    TCPSVCS
412      USBDLM
1948    vmware-usbarbitrator64
2064    vmnat
2108    vmnetdhcp

 

[vefatica]

Frank, I think you found the culprit ... separators at the end on the string (see other thread about @WORD).

v:\> echo %@word[1-9999,PID scvhost]
scvhost
 
v:\> echo %@word[1-9999,PID scvhost ]
ECHO is OFF
 
v:\> echo %@word["-",1-9999,PID-scvhost]
scvhost
 
v:\> echo %@word["-",1-9999,PID-scvhost---]
ECHO is OFF