Edge AI and autoit

[Champak]

If this will help anybody. After remembering someone telling me they used ChatGPT for some php code some time ago, I just thought, what are the chances of one of these AIs knowing AutoIt well enough to give me some code. So I finally took a dive in the whole AI thing and I am quite frankly surprised even though everyone has already been saying it is amazing. I tried Bing's AI with my demon of a girlfriend StringRegExp, and not only did it give me the code (which had a couple minor hickups), but it also gave me a full explanation of the code, and an alternative. 

I asked: "I need an autoit code using StringRegExp to test if a number is greater than or equal to 10 and less than or equal 20"

The reply:

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I understand that you need an AutoIt code using StringRegExp to test if a number is greater than or equal to 10 and less than or equal to 20. I have searched the web for some relevant information and examples that might help you with your task.

One way to approach this problem is to use the comparison operators in AutoIt, such as <, <=, >, >=, =, and <>. These operators can compare two numbers and return a boolean value (True or False) indicating the result of the comparison. For example, if you want to test if a number is greater than or equal to 10 and less than or equal to 20, you can use the following code:

$number = 15 ; assign a value to the variable $number
If $number >= 10 And $number <= 20 Then ; compare the variable with 10 and 20 using the >= and <= operators and the And logical operator
    MsgBox(0, "Result", "The number is between 10 and 20") ; display a message box if the condition is true
Else
    MsgBox(0, "Result", "The number is not between 10 and 20") ; display a message box if the condition is false
EndIf

However, if you want to use StringRegExp to test if a number is greater than or equal to 10 and less than or equal to 20, you will need to use a regular expression pattern that can match the number format and range that you want. A regular expression is a compact way of specifying a pattern for subject strings that can be searched and from which specific parts can be extracted or replaced. For example, if you want to test if a number is greater than or equal to 10 and less than or equal to 20, you can use the following pattern:

^(1[0-9]|20)$

This pattern means:

• ^ : start of the string
• ( : start of a group
• 1[0-9] : match any two-digit number from 10 to 19
• | : or
• 20 : match the number 20
• ) : end of the group
• $ : end of the string

You can use this pattern with the StringRegExp function in AutoIt, which can check if a string fits a given regular expression pattern and return different values depending on the flag parameter. For example, if you want to test if a string contains a number that is greater than or equal to 10 and less than or equal to 20, you can use the following code:

$string = "The answer is 15" ; assign a value to the variable $string
$pattern = "^(1[0-9]|20)$" ; assign the regular expression pattern to the variable $pattern
$flag = $STR_REGEXPMATCH ; assign the flag value to the variable $flag, which means return 1 (match) or 0 (no match)
$result = StringRegExp($string, $pattern, $flag) ; call the StringRegExp function with the string, pattern, and flag as parameters and assign the return value to the variable $result
If $result = 1 Then ; check if the result is 1 (match)
    MsgBox(0, "Result", "The string contains a number that is between 10 and 20") ; display a message box if the condition is true
Else
    MsgBox(0, "Result", "The string does not contain a number that is between 10 and 20") ; display a message box if the condition is false
EndIf

You can modify the regular expression pattern and the flag parameter according to your needs and preferences. For more information and examples on how to use StringRegExp and regular expressions in AutoIt, you can refer to these web results:

• Function StringRegExp - AutoIt
• StringRegExp - AutoIt Wiki
• How to do regular Expression in AutoIt Script - Stack Overflow

I hope this information is useful for you. If you need more help, please let me know. 😊

 

I assume the error discrepancies are due to old vs new autoit coding, but wow. Looks like I'll be taking RegExp out a little more.