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Posted: **15 Aug 2020, 19:51**

If I get command lines from the registry, I would get some things like that :

C:\sys\AutoHotkey\SheBang\SheBang.exe %1
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\WINWORD.EXE" /n "%1"
%SystemRoot%\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE %1

I cannot do a call to FileExist() on such kind of strings.

So, I've dev this function but it's not perfect and can probably be replaced by a more efficient one.

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get_RawPath( CmdPath ){
	if RegExMatch( CmdPath, "%([^%]+)%", o_Match ) {
		valueEnv := EnvGet(o_Match.Value(1))
		if valueEnv
			CmdPath := StrReplace( CmdPath, "%" o_Match.Value(1) "%" , valueEnv,,, Limit:=1 )
	}
	arr := StrSplit( CmdPath, ['%','/'] )
	if arr.Length > 0
		return Trim( StrReplace( arr[1], '`"' ) )
	else
		return Trim( StrReplace( CmdPath, '`"' ) )
}

f := get_RawPath( '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\WINWORD.EXE" /n "%1"' )
MsgBox f "`n" (FileExist( f )?"Exists":"Doesn't exists")

; C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\WINWORD.EXE
; Exists

 
Does someone know another way to do that ?
I guess there's probably a WinAPI function to do it.
 

Posted: **16 Aug 2020, 21:26**

Maybe this one: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processenv/nf-processenv-expandenvironmentstringsa

I'm not really into DllCall, maybe I'll try later to make a function

Posted: **17 Aug 2020, 04:04**

Thanks @madsounds. I think you found it.

I'm not very confident using dllCall but I did that :

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ExpandEnvironmentStrings( strSrc, sizeDst :=2048 ){
	; Expands environment-variable strings and replaces them with the values defined for the current user.
	; DWORD ExpandEnvironmentStringsA(
	;   LPCSTR lpSrc,
	;   LPSTR  lpDst,
	;   DWORD  nSize
	; );
	BUFFER_Src := bufferAlloc( 2*(strLen( strSrc )) + 2 )  ; from AHK v2.a122 64 Unicode UTF-16 LE with BOM
	strPut( strSrc, BUFFER_Src.ptr,, "CP0" )
	BUFFER_Dst := bufferAlloc( sizeDst ) ; max sizeDst = 32*1024
	result := dllCall( "ExpandEnvironmentStringsA", 'Ptr',BUFFER_Src.ptr, 'Ptr',BUFFER_Dst.ptr, 'UInt',2048, 'UInt' )
	;msgBox "Src: " strGet( BUFFER_Src.ptr, "CP0" ) "`nresult: " result "`n" "Dst: " strGet( BUFFER_Dst.ptr, "CP0" )
	if result == 0 {
		return ""  ; throw Exception("dllCall fails")
	} else if result > sizeDst {
		return ""  ; throw Exception("BUFFER_Dst too small")
	} else {
		return strGet( BUFFER_Dst.ptr, "CP0" )
	}
}
msgBox ExpandEnvironmentStrings( "%SystemRoot%\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE %1" )
; C:\Windows\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE %1

Any criticism of this code is welcome. Especially about buffer sizes and encodings.

Posted: **17 Aug 2020, 04:30**

We can dllCall( "ExpandEnvironmentStringsW"… remplacing "CP0" by "CP1200".

Posted: **18 Aug 2020, 02:11**

Great! I don't understand yet completely what it does, but saved your function just in case

Posted: **16 Apr 2023, 20:30**

Hi, FredOoo.

I'm new. Although I cannot fully understand the meaning of every sentence in your function, it is very useful and it works very well!

For the latest AutoHotkey 2.0.2, it seems necessary to replace bufferAlloc with buffer, right?

Thank you for sharing!

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