Re: Problems with shell_exec() running .bat with For /F

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> ... or have I missed some finer point about regional settings?

probably.

check out the 'apply all setting to the current user account and the default 
user profile" in the regional control panel

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""Fred"" <bloggsfred00@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> So here is the source of the problem, but not the cause.
> From the XP command line etc. the dir returns a file line of
> 04/02/2005  02:09 AM          19405754 filename.ext
> but when invoked from shell_exec() it returns
> 04/02/2005  02:09                 19405754 filename.ext
> which means that for some reason the PHP evoked shell isnt picking up the 
> custom regional settings on the machine.
> Its easy enough to work around, but is this a bug or have I missed some 
> finer point about regional settings?
>
> ""Fred"" <bloggsfred00@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> news:9C.6A.42553.94943C24@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> PHP5 - Apache2 - XPSP2
>> I have an XP batch file incorporating a For /F command which behaves 
>> strangely if run from a shell_exec() or system().
>> Specifically, if the batch is run from a command prompt or from the 
>> scheduler, it works as expected, but if I run the same batch from 
>> shell_exec() the For /F misbehaves interpreting token fields.
>> Paraphrasing, "For /F "tokens=1-4" %%a in ('dir /-c c:\somedir') do if /I 
>> %%d==somevalue dosomething" always returns the fourth space delimited 
>> field for %d when run fom an XP cammand prompt or scheduler, but 
>> sometimes returns the third space delimited field when run from 
>> shell_exec(). It always returns the wrong field from the same dir output 
>> lines. The only coincidence seems to be that it returns the wrong field 
>> when there are lots of consecutive spaces preceeding the field.
>> Got me beat.
>> Anyone had similar issues? Please? 

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