help using RegRead on a key containing backslashes 1

[DrewFin]

I'm using RegRead to try to get the data from a value that contains backslash characters, as below:

NavVer = WshShell.RegRead("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\INTEL\DLLUsage\VP6\C:\Program Files\NavNT\rtvscan.exe&quot

where C:\Program Files\NavNT\rtvscan.exe is a single value I'm trying to get data from

I assumed double or triple backslashes would work, as in

NavVer = WshShell.RegRead("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\INTEL\DLLUsage\VP6\C:\\Program Files\\NavNT\\rtvscan.exe&quot

But it doesn't and I haven't found any help from my referance material. I'm reasonably certain my syntax is otherwise correct. Any ideas?

 

[jonscott8]

AFAIK, WSH cannot do this. The backslashes have significant meaning to the registry access methods. You'll need to use something else to read the registry.
Or you could export the VP6 key to a text file, then parse that file for what you want. Jon Hawkins