Capture output value from a shell command in VBA?
Based on Andrew Lessard's answer, here's a function to run a command and return the output as a string -
Public Function ShellRun(sCmd As String) As String 'Run a shell command, returning the output as a string Dim oShell As Object Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") 'run command Dim oExec As Object Dim oOutput As Object Set oExec = oShell.Exec(sCmd) Set oOutput = oExec.StdOut 'handle the results as they are written to and read from the StdOut object Dim s As String Dim sLine As String While Not oOutput.AtEndOfStream sLine = oOutput.ReadLine If sLine <> "" Then s = s & sLine & vbCrLf Wend ShellRun = sEnd FunctionUsage:
MsgBox ShellRun("dir c:\")
You can CreateProcess the application redirecting its StdOut to a pipe, then read that pipe directly; http://pastebin.com/CszKUpNS
dim resp as string resp = redirect("cmd","/c dir")resp = redirect("ipconfig","")