Microsoft® Windows® Scripting with WMI: Self-Paced Learning Guide

298 Part V: Security and Troubleshooting

tion, I do not supply the computer name in single quotes, but contain it in a variable called str-

Computer enclosed in double quotes. When I supply a computer name for the key name

property of Win32_ComputerSystem class, the computer name must be enclosed in single

quotes. To use a single variable for both of these instances that have different requirements, I

devised the simple FunFix function and included it at the bottom of the script. This function

takes the string that is supplied to it, appends a single quote as both a prefix and a suffix, and

assigns the resultant string to be equal to the function name. This enables dual use of the

same variable name.

RetrieveComputerSystem.vbs

strComputer ...