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If this is to represent a password, it is worth considering do you really need to represent the right number of characters? Hiding the length of a password is generally good security, then you can just display a fixed line of *******'s OTOH if this is something like a username or email address, then...

OK that's done, I also added a couple of alternatives

PiotrMP006 wrote: ↑2022-Jul-18, 6:54 am

Both options are described here: https://ss64.com/nt/call.html

The "call exit" solution is not described here "https://ss64.com/nt/call.html" !!!

It is described in the section:
CALL a subroutine (:label)

I tend to use Goto :eof

Both options are described here: https://ss64.com/nt/call.html

Ah I see what you mean.

I think this is one of those annoying cases where the columns have a 'display name' to prettify the output.

To get the real property names you can select/filter on, you need to do:

This is standard behaviour when you ask PowerShell for more data than will fit across the screen. Solutions: 1) Just make the window wide enough so it will fit. 2) Pipe the output to | format-table -auto (this may still truncate but it will try a bit harder to display everything). 3) Send the output...

Looks like that bug has been around for quite a while
a workaround is
via https://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5661

Try like this @echo off set _string=abc set _char=a call set _out=%%_string:%_char%=%% echo [%_out%] if %_string%==%_out% (echo Char %_char% not present) else (echo Char %_char% present) So in the CALL SET line, the outer %'s have to be doubled because we are using CALL, the _string variable doesn't...

instead of wmic diskdrive getName ...
try wmic diskdrive get Name ...

My first thought would be to add a batch file, drag a file onto the batch file,which then calls the VBScript using cscript.exe passing whatever arguments you want, which could include %* for the dropped filename(s).