Trying to match a whitelist with nested IFs...

[gordo]

I am working on a script where I am trying to have it parse through a whitelist of arbitrary size. I've read the whitelist file into an array. Now, I want it to process the main instructions only if the comparison string ($new_list[$process_number][0]) is not found in the whitelist. I've gone so far as using a set of nested IF statements to accomplish this task. In the below case, it works for a whitelist consisting of exactly five strings, but won't work for a whitelist of any other size. Can I utilize some kind of loop to perform this whitelist testing? Here's a snippet...

While 1

Sleep(500)

     If $new_list[$process_number][0] <> $whitelist[1] Then
      If $new_list[$process_number][0] <> $whitelist[2] Then
       If $new_list[$process_number][0] <> $whitelist[3] Then
        If $new_list[$process_number][0] <> $whitelist[4] Then
         If $new_list[$process_number][0] <> $whitelist[5] Then
    
             ***MAIN INSTRUCTIONS SNIPPED***
    
          EndIf
         EndIf
        EndIf
       EndIf
      EndIf

WEnd

By the way, I'm aware that whitelist[0] contains the total number of strings in the whitelist, but I'm not sure how to use this piece of information to accomplish this task...

Edited July 21, 2005 by gordo

[GaryFrost]

?

While 1
   
   Sleep(500)
    $found = 0
   For $i = 1 To $whitelist[0]
      If $new_list[$process_number][0] == $whitelist[$i] Then
         $found = 1
         ExitLoop
      EndIf
   Next
   If Not $found Then
     ;***MAIN INSTRUCTIONS SNIPPED***
      
   EndIf
   
WEnd

[gordo]

Hmmm... I think that just might do it. Thanks! Does ExitLoop exit out of the For loop? I need it to stay in the While loop after testing.

?

While 1
   
   Sleep(500)
    $found = 0
   For $i = 1 To $whitelist[0]
      If $new_list[$process_number][0] == $whitelist[$i] Then
         $found = 1
         ExitLoop
      EndIf
   Next
   If Not $found Then
    ;***MAIN INSTRUCTIONS SNIPPED***
      
   EndIf
   
WEnd

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[GaryFrost]

from the help

ExitLoop

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Terminate a While/Do/For loop.

ExitLoop [level]Parameters

level [optional] The number of levels of loop to exit. The default is 1 (meaning the current loop).

[gordo]

Thanks for the timely info. It worked exactly as requested. I had to change the double == to a single one though...

Now if I can only figure out how to deal with _readfiletoarray and its strange propensity for adding CR's to array strings... I've implemented StringTrimRight to strip off the CR, but the last line is always a doozie. If the file ends with a CR, I get an extra blank record. If the file ends at the last character of the last word, then after trimming, the last string is cut off by a character. Because of this, I can never get all the strings to evaluate properly.

#include <file.au3>
Dim $whitelist

If Not _FileReadToArray("c:\whitelist.txt",$whitelist) Then
   MsgBox(4096,"Error", " Error reading whitelist to array:" & @error)
   Exit
EndIf

For $x = 1 to $whitelist[0]
    $whitelist_trimmed = StringTrimRight($whitelist[$x], 1)
    Msgbox(0,'Record:' & $x, $whitelist_trimmed)
Next

[JSThePatriot]

Have you tried- StringStripCR()?

Removes all carriage return values ( Chr(13) ) from a string.

StringStripCR ( "string" )

Parameters: string (The string to convert.)

Return Value: Returns the string with all instances of the @CR character (Chr(13)) removed.

Remarks: None.

The above is pulled from the help file. Let me know how that works out.

JS

[gordo]

Thanks, that definitely works better -- it no longer cuts off the last character.

[buzz44]

Perhaps someone might help if you created your own thread and didn't hi-jack someone else's. Excuse me if you have already and I haven't seen it.

Edited July 23, 2005 by Burrup