Comspec command & problems using variables

[pghsteelers]

I am trying to use the Comspec command to issue a network command. But if I wanted to request input from the user and then use that input which is assigned to a variable in a command line, how do I do that.

For example, I read in input from the user to variable and put that in something like

var = something
objshell.Run "%comspec% /k c: & cd & c:\ & cls & cd c:\ & nbtstat -a (here is where I would like to place the variable".

I know with allot of functions we can adjoin them using the & such as:

objshell.Run "%comspec% /k c: & cd & c:\ & cls & cd c:\ & nbtstat -a" & var

but this doesn't work. Any ideas?

 

[PHV]

Perhaps this ?
objshell.Run "%comspec% /k c: & cd c:\ & cls & nbtstat -a " & var

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[pghsteelers]

Geez, so i was doing it right, I just didn't have a space between the -a and the "

Thanks!