Windows Installer doesn't really have any string manipulation abilities, just some comparisons. You'll need a custom action.
Rob Andre Nelson wrote: > Hello all, > I am trying to do the following: > > * I am reading a directory from a registry entry that comes back as > something like C:\dir1\dir2\dir3 > * I want to take that directory path and make it into C:\dir1\dir4 > (basically, I know what dir2 and dir3 are - always. I want to be > able to take the substring of the directory path where the > substring goes from location 0 (the C) to where dir2 begins. Then > I can append dir4 - which I also always know the name of. I hope > that clarifies this a bit.) > > Is there a "simple" way to manipulate that string or property? > (I am totally unfamiliar with CDATA so that may be something, but I > don't know.) > > Here is my code getting the info from the registry. I am hoping I can > throw in something within the property tags so it all happens at once > following the registry retrieval....if possible I guess. > > > <Property Id="XMLINSTALLDIR" Value="C:\dir1\dir4"> > <RegistrySearch Id="ProductRegEntry" Type="directory" > Root="HKLM" > Key="Software\COMPANY\PRODUCT" > Name="PRODUCTLOCATION" > Win64="no" /> > </Property> > > > Thanks for any and all help!!!! > > -- > ______________________________________________________ > Andre Nelson > Software Quality Assurance Manager > Frontier Science and Tech Research Foundation > 4033 Maple Road Amherst, New York 14226-1056 > Phone: (716) 834-0900 x7368 > Fax: (716) 833-0655 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > website: http://www.fstrf.org > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
