#1 · Posted April 12, 2004 (edited) I'm having the hardest time trying to detect a space. I've been using aut 2 for about 1 1/2 years now and have become quite good at it. I decided to write a script to do some folder/file management. If I have the following folders Test test - hello hello blah-testfolder I'm trying to segreate the front part from the back part. i want to take hello hello and move it inside test test and take testfolder and move it inside of blah i can only do one or the other, i can get the 1st folder to work fine, but not the second, or i can get the 2nd line to work and not the 1st. i'm doing this by searching for the "-" and doing an envsub 1 or (or not subbing a character) what i want to do it detect teh space but if i say ifinstring,search,, msgbox,0,info, a space was found it doesnt work. i've also tried ifequal,search,, msgbox,............. (etc etc) i cant seem to detect that space.. any help is much apprechiated. thanks Edited April 12, 2004 by blitzkrg Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
#2 · Posted April 12, 2004 Have you tried to work with a variable which contains that space ? SetEnv, A_Space, <-- here's a space char MsgBox, 0, SpaceCheck, |%A_Space%| . . . IfEqual, search, %A_Space%, msgbox, 0, SpaceCheck, I've got it ! I guess the majority of the guys in this forum would recommend to use AutoIt3, On the other hand AutoHotkey which is based on AutoIt2 provides an %A_Space% variable and is backward compatible with AutoIt2. It's up to you if A2/AHK/A3 should solve your issue. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
#3 · Posted April 12, 2004 What was the reason to choose blitzkrg (Blitzkrieg) as your nick Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
#4 · Posted April 12, 2004 Thanks for the replies. While i was waiting i came up with a work around using atool.exe (found on the yahoo autoit groups website) runwait,atool.exe FindString " " "%blah%" 0 ifequal,errorlevel,0,msgbox,0,FindString_Result,a space was found ifnotequal,errorlevel,0,msgbox,0,FindString_Result,a space was not found that works for me. however i didnt want to have to use an external program to get the job done. so will try your suggestions when i get home. thanks!!! As for my nick name. Blitzkrieg as you may know is a german style of warfar (send everything at once - lightning wars) it's also a song by Metallica - Blitzkrieg back in the day when i was on the net, long before ppp and the web, all i had was a unix shell account with my 19.2 modem. and you could only have 8 characters.. so i shortened it to blitzkrg ironically - my entire family is pure english blood.. go figure Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
#5 · Posted April 12, 2004 (edited) Larry: your fix worked perfectly.. thanks!!!!!!!! here's what i did with it checkme: SetEnv, check, * * StringMid,blah1,bna,%dash%,1 IfEqual, check,*%blah1%*,goto, spaces IfnotEqual, check,*%blah1%*,goto, nospaces it now branches properly!! woohoo!!! Edited April 12, 2004 by blitzkrg Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
