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October 2007 - Page 2 of 5 - Scripting Blog

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Extract All the Text Between Two Tags in a Text File?

October 23, 2007 Oct 23, 2007 10/23/07
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Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a whole bunch of text files in a folder. I need to open each of these files, extract everything between the <filecount> and </filecount> tags, and then write that information to a separate file. How can I do that?-- RP Hey, RP. You know, the other day the Scripting Guy who writes this column and the ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Convert a Number to a Date and Then Back in Excel?

October 22, 2007 Oct 22, 2007 10/22/07
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Hey, Scripting Guy! We have a spreadsheet that includes numbers like this: 31738. However, this isn’t supposed to be a number, it’s actually supposed to be a date: 11/22/1986. How can I convert these numbers to dates and then, if needed, convert those dates back to numbers?-- TC Hey, TC. Yes, as a matter of fact it did take the ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Retrieve a List of Unique Users from the Security Event Log?

October 19, 2007 Oct 19, 2007 10/19/07
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I retrieve a list of unique users from the Security event log?-- KM Hey, KM. Before we tackle your question we should probably address a question sent in by another reader: Hey, Scripting Guy! Whatever happened to Monday? Having been gone on vacation all last week, I was combing through the Hey, Scripting ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Tell if a Computer is Bluetooth-Enabled?

October 18, 2007 Oct 18, 2007 10/18/07
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell if a computer is Bluetooth-enabled?-- RR Hey, RR. You know, any time the Scripting Guys get asked something like this, one question immediately pops into our minds: “So where did the name Bluetooth come from anyway?” As it turns out, the Bluetooth “personal area networking” protocol was named in ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Insert New Rows Above the Last Row in an Office Excel Spreadsheet?

October 17, 2007 Oct 17, 2007 10/17/07
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Hey, Scripting Guy! I have an Office Excel spreadsheet in which the last row in the spreadsheet sums all the rows above it. How can I add new rows (and new data) to this spreadsheet, making sure that the last row always sums up all the rows above it?-- AW Hey, AW. By the way, please excuse the mess; at the moment we’re sitting around ...