Help request with string searching

[Senach]

Greetings all.

Ok, basically where Im stuck this time is searching for quote marks. Ive got a batch of scripts that log into a server, run reports, then email the results to various people. Instead of going through all the scripts every xx days to change the passwords Im playing with creating an #include statement for the new password. I got that going with no problem. Now Im trying to come up with a script that will go through all 186 reports and replace the old password with the new variable from the include.

Basically I want this:

WinWaitActive ("Enter Login and Password")
Send ("username{Enter}")
Send ("password{Enter}")

To turn into this:

WinWaitActive ("Enter Login and Password")
Send ("username{Enter}")
Send (& $newpass & "{Enter}")

I got a script to replace the word pswrd with the $newpswrd but when I try to change it to include the whole line, I run into errors because of the multiple quotes in the line.

Here's the working one:

While 1
    $file = FileFindNextFile($search) 
    $filea = "C:\scripts\test_rpts\" & $file
    If @error Then ExitLoop
    $szSearchString = "password"
    $szReplaceString = "$newpass"
    _ReplaceStringInFile ( $filea, $szSearchString, $szReplaceString)

WEnd

Here's what doesn't:

While 1
    $file = FileFindNextFile($search) 
    $filea = "C:\scripts\test_rpts\" & $file
    If @error Then ExitLoop
    $szSearchString = "Send ("password{Enter}")"
    $szReplaceString = "Send (& $newpass & "{Enter}")"
    _ReplaceStringInFile ( $filea, $szSearchString, $szReplaceString)

WEnd

What can I do to fix this? Is there a way to do a search for a string with quotes?

Thanks all.

[andybiochem]

Ok, not sure I get it but how about:

While 1
    $file = FileFindNextFile($search)
    $filea = "C:\scripts\test_rpts\" & $file
    If @error Then ExitLoop
    $szSearchString = 'Send ("password{Enter}")'
    $szReplaceString = 'Send ("' & $newpass & '{Enter}")'
    _ReplaceStringInFile ( $filea, $szSearchString, $szReplaceString)

WEnd

all I changed was this line:

$szReplaceString = 'Send ("' & $newpass & '{Enter}")'

if you want quote marks in a string, define the string with apostrophies:

$ExampleString = 'And then he said "Hello friend" again'

Edited July 28, 2008 by andybiochem

[Senach]

Yep that's what I was missing! Thanks andybiochem, I didn't know about using apostrophies.

I knew it was something simple that I just couldn't figure out.

Thanks again!