ReGExp for string compare

[sfriday]

I am reading the environmental variables specifically path

I am trying to see if a path I need is already there, if not I want to write it into the registry and reboot.

However the compare fails due to the fact that a colon : exists, the path I had was c:\informix\bin, i changed it to
/informix
informix
informix/bin
/informix/bin

and they all work, however put it to :/informix and it fails.

I am reading the path test from a file. Is there an easy way to do this other than breaking the path and reassembling.

Steve

 

[sfriday]

I lied,

It does not like \informix\bin only \informix or informix

Steve

 

[Parke]

The backslash in RegExp has a special meaning. Your pattern probably needs a two backslashes \\. See

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/jsgrpregexpsyntax.asp

Take a look at

http://regexlib.com/default.aspx.

Site has a number of examples of patterns for reg exp. Do a search on \\ and check if the example helps.

Parke