Look for Text inside a window

What are you testing by doing this?  There may be a better way.  It's not easy to actually parse out the text from inside a console window.  If there is another purpose to you pinging the address, it's possible you can find ways of doing so that don't involve the actual "ping" command.

Well I am actually hard rebooting a device and then pinging it to assure that it is back online. I just want to catch it when it becomes offline. Pinging sounded like a great idea to see if it is offline. I want to see what pockets are being dropped, but I am using wireshark for that. I just want to know when it is offline after it has been power cycled. So I can stop my wireshark from running so I can tell which pockets have been dropped. In general, I just want to know how to or if possible to read text from windows. Thanks for the reply!

Hi Ed,



You can try to modify the function from the "Working with Console StdIn and StdOut Streams" section of the "Testing Console Applications" help topic, so it loops pinging the server using one echo request (this will require running the "ping -n 1 %servername%" command). Also, you need to add code that will perform the appropriate actions when the "Request timed out" text is found in the standard output.