Generic RegEx Script

[sourcecode language=”vb”]

Option Explicit

Const ForReading = 1
Const ForWriting = 2
Const ForAppending = 8

Dim objRegEx
Dim targetString
Dim colMatch
Dim objMatch
Dim objFSO
Dim strInputFile
Dim strOutputFile
Dim objInputFile
Dim objOutputFile
Dim strLine
Dim strPattern
Dim strMatch

strInputFile = Wscript.Arguments.Named("InputFile")
strOutputFile = Wscript.Arguments.Named("OutputFile")
strPattern = Wscript.Arguments.Named("Pattern")
strPattern = Replace(strPattern,""","""")

If Trim(strInputFile) <> "" And Trim(strPattern) <> "" Then
Set objRegEx = CreateObject("vbscript.regexp")
With objRegEx
.Pattern = strPattern
.Global = True
.IgnoreCase = True
End With
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If objFSO.FileExists(strInputFile) Then
Set objInputFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strInputFile, ForReading )
If Trim(strOutputFile) <> "" Then
Set objOutputFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strOutputFile, ForAppending, True)
End If
Do While Not objInputFile.AtEndOfStream
strLine = objInputFile.ReadLine
If Trim(strLine) <> "" Then
Set colMatch = objRegEx.Execute(strLine)
For each objMatch in colMatch
strMatch = Replace(Replace(objMatch.Value,"UniqueID=",""),"""","")
If Trim(strOutputFile) <> "" Then
objOutputFile.WriteLine(strMatch)
Else
WScript.Echo(strMatch)
End If
Next
End If
Loop
objInputFile.Close
If Trim(strOutputFile) <> "" Then
objOutputFile.Close
End If
Set objInputFile = Nothing
Set objOutputFile = Nothing
Set objFSO = Nothing
End If
Else
ShowUsage()
End If
Sub ShowUsage
WScript.Echo "Usage: CScript.exe " & WScript.ScriptName & " /InputFile:""FILENAME"" [/OutputFile:""FILENAME]"" /Pattern:""PATTERN"""
WScript.Echo ""
WScript.Echo "Is OutputFile is omitted, matches will be displayed"
WScript.Echo ""
WScript.Echo "Substitute "" with ""
End Sub

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