IF then Wild Card 1

[saw15]

Can I use a wild card in vbscript within a if then statement ? Basically I am looking for any version of IE or NN.

Example:

If variable = "IE" or variable = "NN*" then
variable = true
else
variable = false
End if

Help / comments appreciated.

 

[PHV]

Take a look at the RegExp object

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[dbMark]

Yes, RegExp object is the best way and you need to get familiar with all it capabilities and nuances, but if you only need a simple way to check a fixed number of characters at the beginning of a string, then this also would work:

If inStr("IE,NN",left(variable,2)) Then

If you're not sure if they'll be uppercase, then you can ignore upper and lower this way:

If inStr("IE,NN",ucase(left(variable,2))) Then

 

[clarkin]

first a correction for dbMark : you have to split your "IE,NN" into two inStr() searches - what you have above searches for the exact string "IE,NN" rather than either "IE" or "NN".

Secondly, if you only want to check the first two chars of variable - then there's no need to use inStr:

Dim blnFound, strBrowser

strBrowser = &quot;IE V6.0(...)&quot; '<- get browser line here
strBrowser = left(strBrowser, 2) 'get first 2 chars only

If (strBrowser = &quot;IE&quot; OR strBrowser = &quot;NN&quot;) then 
 blnFound = true
else
 blnFound = false
End if

hope you can work it out from there


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[dilettante]

Or even:

Dim strBrowser, blnFound

strBrowser = &quot;IE V6.0(...)&quot; '<- get browser line here
strBrowser = Left(strBrowser, 2) 'get first 2 chars only

blnFound = (strBrowser = &quot;IE&quot; Or strBrowser = &quot;NN&quot;)

Or yet even:

Dim aryBrowsers, strBrowser, blnFound

aryBrowsers = Array("IE", "NN")

strBrowser = &quot;IE V6.0(...)&quot; '<- get browser line here
strBrowser = Left(strBrowser, 2) 'get first 2 chars only

blnFound = UBound(Filter(aryBrowsers, strBrowser, True, vbTextCompare)) > -1

The last example makes it easy to check for multiple matches.