Hi,

I know that this may have been asked over and over but I cant seem to get anywhere and I'm running out of time to sort this out. Basically, I need an application that can read an XML config file with PC names in and folder locations and progressivley go through and delete folders older than 30 days in said locations. This needs to be in VB6 and I just dont know where to start or for that matter actually code it.

Can anyone help me or point me in the right direction please?

I'm guessing here, but I would suspect that with VB6 you will essentially need to "teach VB to read." Read the file a character or a line at a time, and wade into what you find. When you encounter a < increment a "level" counter. Search for the various properties that that node can have, and so on. You can read a text file just like any other text file. (I recommend using the File Sustem Object "Microsoft Windows Scripting Runtime" in the references dialog.)

It sounds like your xml file will be fairly restricted in format, so you don't really need to make a full-fledged xml interpreter. Just take it a step at a time. make a list of what you think you will encounter, and write code to handle that.

There is the DOM object if you insert msxml into your project.. and you can just have a nodelist to search...

HTH

Gonzalo

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bizzarley through some reverse engineering I have done it. I have never written any vb code especially 6 as i have only ever learnt c# so it was a bit alien to me. I have done it now though.

Thanks for the comments though

Gonzalo,

    I was unaware of that library. It looks pretty robust; thanks for bringing it up.

For those lurking, I found the following in the Refferences dialog:

• Microsoft XML, version 2.0 (MSXML.DLL)
• Microsoft XML, v2.6 (msxml2.dll)
• Microsoft XML, v3.0 (msxml3.dll)
• Microsoft XML, v4.0 (msxml4.dll)
• Microsoft XML, v6.0 (msxml6.dll)

the only thing you have to watch if when you need to deploy them. They are deployed by versions of IE and several windows patch, so not all system have all of them... Also there is a weird system to register them.. but I never had a problem using them (in fact, I could imagine that they took the xml parser inside .net from one of this libraries...)

HTH

Gonzalo

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