script logic help - return a good value

[NDog]

Hi all

I would like some help with logic of a script. I have a text file which I am reading values from. I want to compare if the value equals 'unknown' or 'System Serial Number' or any other amount of values. I want to check that it doesn't equal one of these values and if it doesn't equal such value then return.

What I am doing at the moment is probably a stupid way, I am adding a number to a variable and then checking the value if they match the undesired results. Each time it doesn't match it increments a value of 1. At the end if the total value equals the amount of undesired values (in this case 2) then return the "good" value.

Here is the code so you can understand more easily.

...
$sStr = FileRead(@TempDir &"\mysystem.txt")
; First pass, try to get DMI System Information Serial
$aDMI = StringRegExp($sStr, "(?is)dmi\s+system\s+information\h*\v+(.+?)\v{3,}", 1)
If NOT @Error Then
    $aData = StringRegExp($aDMI[0], "(?i)(?:serial)\h+(.+?)(?:\v)+", 3)
    If Not @Error Then
  $sID = $aData[0]
    EndIf
EndIf
$var = 0
If $sID <> "unknown" Then $var += 1
If $sID <> "System Serial Number" Then $var += 1
ConsoleWrite("UUID = " & $sID &" = "& $var & @LF)
If $var = 2 Then Return $sID ;this number corresponds to the amount of entries placed here!
...

Thanks for advice!

[martin]

Maybe something like this?

$posvals = StringSplit("unknown|System Serial Number|another option", "|")

$sStr = FileRead(@TempDir & "\mysystem.txt")
; First pass, try to get DMI System Information Serial
$aDMI = StringRegExp($sStr, "(?is)dmi\s+system\s+information\h*\v+(.+?)\v{3,}", 1)
If Not @error Then
    $aData = StringRegExp($aDMI[0], "(?i)(?:serial)\h+(.+?)(?:\v)+", 3)
    If Not @error Then
     $sID = $aData[0]
    EndIf
EndIf
$var = 0

For $n = 1 To $posvals[0]
    If $sID <> $posvals[$n] Then $var += 1
    ConsoleWrite("UUID = " & $sID & " = " & $var & @LF)
Next

If $var = 2 Then Return $sID ;?

[NDog]

Thanks martin.

I did not need to consolewrite $var, i just put that as a kind of debug. But your logic is making sense. I see you made an array of bad values and then go through them one at a time.

I would like to do something like this but the logic is not right. Remember I need to go through all the bad values first and then if they all are not bad values, then return the good value..

I am just trying to get my head around this....

$sStr = FileRead(@TempDir &"\mysystem.txt")

; First pass, try to get DMI System Information Serial
$badvalues = StringSplit("unknown|System Serial Number|another option", "|")

$aDMI = StringRegExp($sStr, "(?is)dmi\s+system\s+information\h*\v+(.+?)\v{3,}", 1)
If NOT @Error Then
    $aData = StringRegExp($aDMI[0], "(?i)(?:serial)\h+(.+?)(?:\v)+", 3)
    If Not @Error Then
     $sID = $aData[0]
    EndIf
EndIf

For $n = 1 To $badvalues[0]
    If Not $sID <> $badvalues[$n] Then
     ConsoleWrite("UUID = " & $sID & " = " & @LF)
     Return $sID
    EndIf
Next

[martin]

More of the same I suppose.

$badvals = StringSplit("unknown|System Serial Number|another option", "|")
$goodvals = stringsplit"one good|two good|three goood | as many good as you want", "|")

$sStr = FileRead(@TempDir & "\mysystem.txt")
; First pass, try to get DMI System Information Serial
$aDMI = StringRegExp($sStr, "(?is)dmi\s+system\s+information\h*\v+(.+?)\v{3,}", 1)
If Not @error Then
    $aData = StringRegExp($aDMI[0], "(?i)(?:serial)\h+(.+?)(?:\v)+", 3)
    If Not @error Then
        $sID = $aData[0]
    EndIf
EndIf
$var = 0

For $n = 1 To $badvals[0]
    If $sID <> $badvals[$n] Then $var += 1

Next

If $var > 0 Then Return $var

For $n = 1 To $goodvals[0]
    If $sID <> $goodvals[$n] Then $var += 1
Next

Return -$var; negative value means good?