Search for a substring using wildcards
Hi,
I would like to search a substring within a string that contains some values that change at runtime.
My string is, for example:
"Result Id: n=3;i=916169501"
I'm not interested to check the n and i values, but only the string format.
I've tried these (to simplify the example, I've directly set an input string for the comparison), by using the aqString.Find method.
function test()
{
// OK --> it returns 7, so the substring is found
aqString.Find("Result: Id: n=3;i=916169501","Id: ns=3;i=916169501");
// KO --> it returns -1, so the substring is not found
aqString.Find("Result: Id: n=3;i=916169501","Id: ns=*;i=*");
// KO --> it returns -1, so the substring is not found
aqString.Find("Result: Id: n=3;i=916169501","Id: ns=?;i=*");
}
Probably the aqString.Find method doesn't handle wildcards, can you help me how can I reach my result?
Thanks
Simona
I post the solution found with the help of mikef , that works!
Using aqString.StrMatches to compare the structure, using regex. For example :
inputString = "Result Id: n=3sdfsdf;i=9161634395asdf01" returnValue = aqString.StrMatches("Result Id: n=.*;i=.*",inputString) Log.Message(returnValue)
