use wildcard string to check flow of script

[chouck]

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to do this. I cna't figure it out and was looking for a bit of advice: what i want to do is take the first two characteres of a computername and use that as the indicator of which way the script shoul flow. for instance if i use one type of name for desktop pc's and one type of name for laptop pc's, i want to be able to determine the name and then script to act appropriately:

Desktop example name: dt1234
laptop example name: lt1234

Here is a sample of what i have so far:


set objshell = createobject("wscript.shell")
set objnet = Createobject("wscript.network")

wscript.echo objnet.computername

if computername = "lt*" then
wscript.echo "works"
else
wscript.echo "does not work"

end if

basically what i think i am trying to do is to parse out the results of the objnet.computername results to a partial string??

Any help greatly appreciated

 

[PHV]

If UCase(Left(computername, 2)) = "LT" Then

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[SaMaLaKo]

try this:

Select Case Ucase(left(computername,2))
	Case "LT"
		'Do stuff for Laptop
	Case "DT"
		'Do stuff for Desktop
	Case Else
		MsgBox "Wrong Computername!"
End select

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[chouck]

thank you to both of you, both of these solutions worked very well!!

This was gold and did exactly what I needed it to do. Thanks