Re: Clean string returned by windows console cmd

Thank you everybody. A lot

On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 2:22:12 PM UTC+2, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> Am 2014-07-09 00:16, schrieb John Beckett:
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> > Ni Va wrote:
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> >> This is obtained by launching this command :
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> >> echo system("wmic logicaldisk get deviceid")
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> >
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> > The problem is that the output from wmic is Unicode, and system
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> > is dumping the bytes. I don't know how to avoid that, but the
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> > following reads the plain text if you have the correct settings:
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>
>
> correct. More specifically, the output is - I think - utf-16 (or was it
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> UCS-2?)
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> but instead of leaving the null bytes alone, Vim converts those to SOH
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> (0x01).
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> That's why you see all those ^A characters there (plus the BOM in the
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> beginning
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> of the string, so you can't even convert it on the fly using iconv() or
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> such).
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>
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> I think Vim should try to convert the output of the system command.
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> There is an entry in the todo list about it.
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>
>
> A simple work around is, to pipe the output through findstr. So this
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> should work:
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> :echo system("wmic logicaldisk get deviceid|findstr '.*'")
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>
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> Alternatively, you might be able to script something using systemlist()
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> and iconv()
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>
>
> Best,
>
> Christian

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