Stringleft Is Not Workin' Right

[kseven]

Hey fellas,

need some help with the function StringLeft. i'm workin with an array and each element of the array has one of the two following contents:

first choice:

empty line
fooline1
fooline2
fooline3
empty line

second choice:

empty line
empty line
fooline1
fooline2
fooline3
empty line

im checking each element, which is always a string, for the substring:

@CRLF & @CRLF

but this doesnt work. searching any a character in the first line works fine(put some chracters into it), but searching for two empty lines don't.

any ideas?

my script:

$searchstring = @CRLF & @CRLF

For $i = 1 To Ubound($Array)-1
If StringLeft($Array[$i], 5) == $searchstring then
blabla
else
blabla
Next

[neogia]

$searchstring = @CRLF & @CRLF

For $i = 1 To Ubound($Array)-1
If StringLeft($Array[$i], 5) == $searchstring then
blabla
else
blabla
Next

Well, there's probably an easier way to do what you're doing, but if you'd like to do it this way, @CRLF is only two characters, @CR, and @LF. The fourth line in your script uses StringLeft($Array[$i], 5) == $searchstring. If you make that 4, it should work. If you want, post an actual example of the string(s) you are trying to parse, and I'll see if I can't find a more reliable method.