READVALUE

Action

Reads a registry value and returns it as an ASCII string.

 

Syntax

READVALUE ("subkey", "entry")

Parameters

Subkey

Identifies the subkey containing the entry.

Entry

Identifies the entry whose value you want to discover. To read the default entry of a key, specify an empty string as the entry name ("").

Returns

ASCII representation of the specified registry value.

 

REG_MULTI_SZ (multi-string) variables are returned with the pipe symbol ( | ) used as the separator between strings. If a string contains a pipe symbol character, it is represented by two pipe symbol characters ( || ).

 

REG_DWORD variables are returned in decimal format.

 

Example

$Rows = ReadValue("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console\Configuration", "WindowRows")

If @ERROR = 0

   ? "Number of window-rows: $Rows"

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