Is there a quicker way to do this, other than reading the value into a property, appending the value, and writing it back?
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How to append to an existing registry entry
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russellperry
, Jul 24 2006 17:35
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Stefan Krueger
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Posted 25 July 2006 - 07:20
For multiline strings (REG_MULTI_SZ): Yes, quote from the Registry Table documentation for the Value column:
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| If a [~] precedes the string list, the strings are to be appended to any existing registry value strings. If an appending string already occurs in the registry value, the original occurrence of the string is removed. |
Similar functionality exists for the Environment table. But not for registry entries in general if they are not multi_sz.
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russellperry
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Posted 25 July 2006 - 17:20
It seems that this only works for null-delimited strings. The value I want to append to is semi-colon delimited. I've tried putting [~] on either end of the string, and it always overwrites the existing value.
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Posted 26 July 2006 - 05:28
I think you will have to resort to VBScript or Installscript for this to work reliably.
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