Alert Variable String Formatting

Is it possible and I just cannot find the reference to format alert strings?

Specifically, right now I'm calling an external application when an alert occurs and would like to escape any quotes I'm passing to the program so that they don't break the command line if passed unexpectedly. But any knowledge anyone has on general string replace function if it exists would be appreciated.

Thanks

Jason

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yaquaholic

Hi Jason,

Using the Powershell syntax, the ` (backtick) character to escape special characters:

$string1 = "Hello there"
echo $string1

$string2 = "`"Hello there`""
echo $string2

Hope it helps,

Rich

ThatJason

Thanks.

But what I'm looking for is more of a

External application

App.exe -Name "${N=SwisEntity;M=Caption}"

But if I pass a caption of 'The switch in the "kitchen".', I don't want it to blow up. I was hoping there was an undocumented format I could attach, like for example ${N=SwisEntity;M=Caption,F=StringEsc} or something that would do the escaping before it gets to the script. I don't think such a thing exists, but I would be happy to be wrong.

yaquaholic

Jason,

I see what you mean now. I don't believe there is such an undocumented switch, but I'd wrap the execution of the external program into a PowerShell script to deal with such formatting in the caption. Then call the PowerShell script from the alert action.

From my previous PowerShell example:

$string3 = $string2.Replace('"','')
echo $string3

You will need to repeat this for each special character that you might come across.

Or a clean up of your device caption names within Orion?

Hope it helps,

Rich