Hi there,

I am going to use Dos/Batch with VBscript suggested from some guru in this forum to generate time stamp for text files. The partial codes are as follow: -

@echo off
IF EXIST "collect_*.TXT" (
echo Wscript.echo eval(WScript.Arguments(0))>"%cd%\evaluate.vbs"
For /f %%D in ( ' CSCRIPT //nologo "%cd%\evaluate.vbs" "day(date)" ' ) do set /a d=%%D
For /f %%M in ( ' cscript //nologo "%cd%\evaluate.vbs" "month(date)" ' ) do set /a m=%%M
For /f %%Y in ( ' cscript //nologo "%cd%\evaluate.vbs" "year(date)" ' ) do set /a yyyy=%%Y
del/q "%cd%\evaluate.vbs"
if %d% LSS 10 (set dd=0%d%) ELSE (set dd=%d%)
if %m% LSS 10 (set mm=0%m%) else (set mm=%m%)
set TimeStamp=%yyyy%-%mm%-%dd
) else (
echo.
echo no information collected!
)
echo.
pause
exit

However, the program does not run properly with following error mesages:

It gives an error message: ) was unexpected at this time.
for statement:
echo Wscript.echo eval(WScript.Arguments(0))>"%cd%\evaluate.vbs"

and it gives error message: 10 was unexpected at this time.
for the statements: if %d% LSS 10 (set dd=0%d%) else (set dd=%d%)
if %m% LSS 10 (set mm=0%m%) else (set mm=%m%)

Any idea about that?


Thanks,
ThomasI suspect it does not like nested IFs
I would fake it with GoTos

Code: [SELECT]@echo off
IF Not EXIST "collect_*.TXT" GoTo IfElse

echo Wscript.echo eval(WScript.Arguments(0))>"%cd%\evaluate.vbs"
For /f %%D in ( ' cscript //nologo "%cd%\evaluate.vbs" "day(date)" ' ) do set /a d=%%D
For /f %%M in ( ' cscript //nologo "%cd%\evaluate.vbs" "month(date)" ' ) do set /a m=%%M
For /f %%Y in ( ' cscript //nologo "%cd%\evaluate.vbs" "year(date)" ' ) do set /a yyyy=%%Y
del/q "%cd%\evaluate.vbs"
if %d% LSS 10 (set dd=0%d%) else (set dd=%d%)
if %m% LSS 10 (set mm=0%m%) else (set mm=%m%)
set TimeStamp=%yyyy%-%mm%-%dd
GoTo IfEnd

:IfElse
echo.
echo no information collected!
GoTo IfEnd

:IfEnd
echo.
pause
exit

Quote from: gpl on August 19, 2009, 09:32:10 AM

I suspect it does not like nested IFs
I would fake it with GoTos