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seyalas
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Joined: 13 Nov 2006
Posts: 3
Location: Denmark
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 Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 4:53 pm
Pattern matches all or no strings
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I want to check wether a variable matches one of two strings, like this:
#IF {@bdiv =~ "Alliance Army"} {#SAY AA}
#IF {@bdiv =~ "Alliance Navy"} {#SAY AN}
That is the syntax I can find in the help pages, but it just doesn't work. I have checked the @bdiv variable, and it actually contains one of the strings at any given time, but nothing happens.
If I remove the quotation marks, the statement returns true in both cases.
Does anyone have a suggestion? |
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Tech
GURU
Joined: 18 Oct 2000
Posts: 2733
Location: Atlanta, USA
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:49 pm
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Hmmm, I'm at work so I can't actually check the syntax, but I did notice two things.
First, since your variable can contain spaces you probably need to quote it so that match is successfully performed.
#IF {"@bdiv" =~ "Alliance Army"} {#SAY AA}
#IF {"@bdiv" =~ "Alliance Navy"} {#SAY AN}
I also noticed that since you're not actually using any pattern matching in your string, you can do a direct comparison.
#IF {"@bdiv" == "Alliance Army"} {#SAY AA}
#IF {"@bdiv" == "Alliance Navy"} {#SAY AN}
I hope that helps. |
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seyalas
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Posts: 3
Location: Denmark
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:42 pm
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The second suggestion worked! Thanks :)
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