I am executing this in command line:
wmic printer get name,default, drivername
And I need to parse the result in my application.
The result in my PC looks like:
Default DriverName Name
TRUE Send to Microsoft OneNote 16 Driver OneNote (Desktop)
FALSE Microsoft Software Printer Driver OneNote for Windows 10
FALSE Microsoft XPS Document Writer v4 Microsoft XPS Document Writer
FALSE Microsoft Print To PDF Microsoft Print to PDF
FALSE Microsoft Shared Fax Driver Fax
My question is: Is the column order going to be the same in all PCs? Is the column order going to be the same in other Windows versions (7, 8, 8.1, 10)?
Regardless of the order of your comma delimited 'get' properies list, the version of Windows, (with a built-in WMIC.exe), or the end user language, the results are always returned in alphabetical order left to right. In your specific case above, that would always be:
Default, Column 2: DriverName, Column 3: Name.However, if you are intending to parse those results for your application, please be aware that when the 'table' format is returned those columns are fixed width, so they may not contain the entire property value if its string is longer that the width.
Wherever possible I'd advise that you return those results in a non 'table' format, and preferably one which captures the entire value if you intend to use it in another command. For instance trailing space characters are often included in Manufacturer supplied values. So as the columns are effectively space character delimited, any trailing characters could be omitted when parsing. Even using 'csv' or 'list' formats, any value at the end of a line may still include trailing spaces.
Please also take account that the results returned from WMIC.exe are encoded as UTF-16LE.