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How to compare two strings in ifinstring

 
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chandru155



Joined: 03 Dec 2008
Posts: 158
Location: chennai,india
PostPosted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:50 am    Post subject: How to compare two strings in ifinstring Reply with quote
Hi, i just want to use ifinstring to compare to strings.

Let MyString be a varibale. How to check whether MyString contains var1 or var2. I want to make a if loop.. How to i do this..
For comparing one, my code is like this
Code:
ifinstring,MyString,var1
{
}

But how to use two strings(var1 and var2)

in C language, its like this
Code:
if(c==var1 | c==var2)
{
}


I knw, its not string..
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Solar



Joined: 03 May 2009
Posts: 345
Location: OH, USA
PostPosted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
4 examples:
Code:
If (InStr(MyString, var1) || InStr(MyString, var2))
   MsgBox found var1 or var2 in MyString

Code:
If (InStr(MyString, var1))
   MsgBox found var1 in MyString
Else If (InStr(MyString, var2))
   MsgBox found var2 in MyString

Code:
IfInString, MyString, %var1%
   MsgBox found var1 in MyString
Else IfInString, MyString, %var2%
   MsgBox found var2 in MyString

chandru155 wrote:
in C language, its like this
Code:
Code:
if(c==var1 | c==var2)
{
}

Using exact match instead of "contains":
Code:
If (MyString == var1 || MyString == var2)
   MsgBox MyString equals var1 or var2
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 1:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Besides using any of the code posted by Solar, you might consider using the If var in Matchlist command. It has the advantage (for many possible matches) of being much faster than InStr() in a loop.

Code:
MatchList = one,two,three,four,five   ; list of possible matches (may be made case sensitive)

var = two                  ; string to search for
if var in %MatchList%
  msgbox, found "%var%"
else
 msgbox, "%var%" not found
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