<setInstallerVariableFromRegEx>
<name>shortinstall</name>
<pattern>^Job:(.*)$</pattern>
<substitution>\1</substitution>
<text>${installdir}</text>
<ruleList>
<platformTest>
<type>windows-x64<type>
</rulelist>
</setInstallerVariableFromRegEx>
Hi All,
I am not really a programmer more a scripting person. I am trying to grab a shortened version of the system variable that is set to "c:\Program Files\JobBag" The JobBag portion can be changed by the user at run time. Using the above never resets the variable back to JobBag. Any help appreciated.
Hi @MarkStr,
You could just set the installdir variable directly:
<setInstallerVariable>
<name>installdir</name>
<value>${platform_install_prefix}/${product_shortname}/${user_input}</value>
</setInstallerVariable>
Would that work for you?
Regards,
Michiel
<setInstallerVariableFromRegEx>
<name>short</name>
<pattern>^(.*?)\\(.*?)\\(.*?)$</pattern>
<substitution>\3</substitution>
<text>${installdir}</text>
</setInstallerVariableFromRegEx>
Hi All, Just wanted to give back to the community. I did find a solution in the end. It was a modified example from the Installbuilder documentation. It was not what I wanted exactly but it did do the Job. The above example did update my variable correctly as long as the program was installed in one sub-directory and no more based on my pattern. Most users would have installed our application into the "program files" directory so the script will probably work with at least 95% of our installs. I will just have to deal manually with 5% that had unusual installation directories.