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I am using the following syntax in my if statement. It does not error when I run the syntax checker in Scite but it doesn't appear to work as I expect it to. Am I using the correct syntax?.

Below is a snippet from my script that shows what I am trying to do.

If $Type = "2" or "3" or "4" or "5" Then
            FileWrite($oputfile, "ip address" & @CRLF)
            FileWrite($oputfile, @CRLF)
        Else
            MsgBox(0, "Info", "System type is not standard")
        EndIf

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It should be like this

If $Type = "2" or $Type = "3" or $Type = "4" or $Type = "5" Then
            FileWrite($oputfile, "ip address" & @CRLF)
            FileWrite($oputfile, @CRLF)
        Else
            MsgBox(0, "Info", "System type is not standard")
        EndIf

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Yep I figured that out after I put it in the script and it ran successfully!! As usual the program is smarter than me :-)

One last question are global variables case sensative in Autoit? I would take it from the comment they arent't.

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Thanks! I am suprised Scite didn't catch it!!

I am afraid to ask but ....... I looked in the help file and didn't see an example. Was it there?

The checker won't catch this because it is a valid syntax (besides it doesn't behave as you were expecting).

If <condition> Then ...

Now $Type = "2" Or "3" is a perfectly valid <condition>. It boils down to evaluating $Type = "2" test as a boolean (this works as you whish) and then "3" as a boolean. When you open the helpfile >> Language Reference >> DataTypes, you read:

The other way around however is different. When you use string comparisons with Boolean values, the following rules apply:

Only an empty string ("") will be a Boolean false

Any other string values (including a string equal "0") will be a Boolean true

Thus "3" will evaluate as Boolean True (and the counpound condition will stop there due to Or short-circuit).

Hope this is clearer now.

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No keyword or user created object (variable, constant, enumeration, function) is case sensitive in AutoIt, either global, local or static.

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If you're referring to the Or's I capitalized, they're not Global variables, they are Logical Operators, and they aren't case sensitive. In the docs, they're all caps, but they'll work either lowercase, all uppercase, or the first letter capitalized.

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If you are checking one variable to many different values I reccomend using a switch statement like this:

$Type = 1 ;Set the value of $Type here
Switch String($Type) ;Autoit should make $Type a string when compared to one, but just to be sure we'll make it one, You could also make it a number and compare to numbers.
    Case "2","3","4","5"
        ConsoleWrite("$Type = 2, or 3, or 4, or 5" & @CRLF)
    Case "1"
        ConsoleWrite("$Type = 1" & @CRLF)
    Case Else
        ConsoleWrite("$Type = not 1, or 2, or 3, or 4, or 5" & @CRLF)
EndSwitch
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Tvern,

;Autoit should make $Type a string when compared to one

No, it's more involved.

In If 1 = $var Then ... AutoIt does If 1 = Number($var) Then ...

But in

If 1 == $var Then ... AutoIt does If String(1) == String($var) Then ...

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