Search text file for string 1

[jlozan]

I’m trying to create a script to look in a text file and search for something. Then, return a value of “0” if it finds it and returns a value of “1” if it doesn’t. I've found something on scriptcenter, but it just returns the value that I search for. I've modified that script to just output 0 if true and 1 is false, but then I just get a 1 or 0 for each line in the file. I was hoping for the sum of everything which would be 0 if it wasn't found and some number greater than 0 if it was.

Here is what I have so far.

Const ForReading = 1

Set objRegEx = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
objRegEx.Pattern = "ctxsta.dll"

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("F:\Program Files\Citrix\Secure Gateway\conf\httpd2.conf", ForReading)

Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream
    strSearchString = objFile.ReadLine
    Set colMatches = objRegEx.Execute(strSearchString)  
    If colMatches.Count > 0 Then
        Wscript.Echo 0
    Else Wscript.Echo 1 
    End If
Loop

objFile.Close

 

[strongm]

[blue]Const ForReading = 1

Set objRegEx = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
objRegEx.Pattern = "ctxsta.dll"

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("F:\Program Files\Citrix\Secure Gateway\conf\httpd2.conf", ForReading)
Wscript.Echo -1 * objRegEx.Test(objFile.ReadAll)

objFile.Close[/blue]

 

[jlozan]

wow - that was quick - thanks!

It works, can you briefly explain what this line does?

Wscript.Echo -1 * objRegEx.Test(objFile.ReadAll)

 

[jlozan]

ok, I have a slight problem. when i search for the string "SSLProtocol +TLSv1", I get a negative result even though I know its in the file. If I change it to only "SSLProtocol", it succeeds. if I change it to "+TLSv1", it fails with an Unexpected quantifier error.

Is the + a special character of some sort?

anyway to get this to give a positive result for "SSLProtocol +TLSv1" ?

Thanks so much!

 

[strongm]

Yes + is a special symbol in regular expressions. If you need it to be interpreted literally in the pattern put a backslash in front of it to escape it:

SSLProtocol \+TLSv1