Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide

Strings and Arrays

In this section, you’ll use text files as an input into your script to dynamically create an array that you’ll use to do real work. Why is this topic important? Even though we all know about the event log in Microsoft Windows Server 2003, many network administrators and consultants are unaware of the literally hundreds of other log files lying about on the hard disk drives of their networks. Indeed, lying about is an appropriate state for the vast majority of these log files because they contain little in the way of operational guidance for the enlightened network administrator. However, some are veritable fountains of elocution and erudition (or maybe not). The following list summarizes uses for converting a text file into ...