Wildcards Charactors

[vickerps]

Is there any wildcards set up in autoit

For example

I want a person to enter text into text box but it has to be in a set format eg. 10:20:30

third & sixth charactor must be a : but the rest could be any number

[scriptkitty]

Use a split string function.

; this format  10:20:30
while 1
$answer = InputBox("Question", "What time."&@crlf&"10:20:30 format please", "10:20:30", "", -1, -1, 0, 0)
$answer1=Stringsplit($answer,":")
if IsArray ($answer1) then if $answer1[0]=3 then exitloop
wend

msgbox(1,$answer,$answer1[1]&" "&$answer1[2]&" "&$answer1[3])

[vickerps]

Thanks Scriptkitty that work great

I just spent 30 min trying to understand what you did. I think i understand now

Your spliting the string by : and storing the results into a array. Then your using the last ":" to create the exit from the loop

Is that right it is important that i understand because I need to learn

Edited March 19, 2004 by vickerps

[scriptkitty]

You got it pretty much.

Code explained.

; this format  10:20:30
while 1  
;this is an endless loop, the Exit loop command jumps out of it.
$answer = InputBox("Question", "What time."&@crlf&"10:20:30 format please", "10:20:30", "", -1, -1, 0, 0)
; this asks the user for the proper input
$answer1=Stringsplit($answer,":")
;This creates an array automatically delimited by the : and assigns the number of
; elements besides itself to  $answer1[0]
if IsArray ($answer1) then if $answer1[0]=3 then exitloop
; if it became an array, and then if the array has 4 elements (3 + $answer1[0]) it jumps out of the loop and continues past wend
wend
; if no exitloop is found, it repeats again.
msgbox(1,$answer,$answer1[1]&" "&$answer1[2]&" "&$answer1[3])
; displays data for you, you could do anything you want from this point.