Searching for a file on multiple drives?

[alterctrlego 0]

I am writing a small program for a U3 memory stick, and one of the things that I need the program to do is locate a partition on the memory stick and tell a script the drive letter. The code that I have used so far is

Func getdrive()
    For $number=97 to 122
        Local $drive_l = Chr($number)
        Local $idnum = IniRead($drive_l&":\serial.ini","IDENTITY","SOFT_SERIAL","")
        If $idnum = "" Then
        Next
            Else
                Return($drive_l)
            EndIf
EndFunc

To the naked eye, this code should work, yet AutoIt doesn't allow programs to have "for" and "if" statements nesting in the way that I have them here...

Any ideas?

Help would be much appreciated. :">

AlterCtrlEgo,

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[acidfear 0]

Would replacing the "For" loop with a "While" loop work?

Edited January 4, 2007 by acidfear

[Uten 5]

uhh, why write code you know want work?

Try: DriveGetDrive in the helpfile..

[alterctrlego 0]

It might, but I am still unsure about how to cycle through the letters while being able to exit out of the loop once the drive has been found.

Thanks,

AlterCtrlEgo

[alterctrlego 0]

Uten,

Thanks for the reply but,

I thought about using DriveGetDrive, but it wouldn't work for the my program as there may be many of one type of drive plugged into the computer at one time. I know there are other ways of identifying a drive but I think that looking for a value in a file is the most useful way for me

AlterCtrlEgo,

Thankful newb

[Danny35d 8]

Func getdrive()
    Local $idnum
    $drives = DriveGetDrive('all')
    For $x = 1 To $drives[0]
        $idnum = IniRead($drives[$x] & "\serial.ini","IDENTITY","SOFT_SERIAL","")
        If $idnum <> "" Then Return($drives[$x])
    Next
    Return('')
EndFunc

Enjoy... :">

[alterctrlego 0]

Danny35d,

The script worked! Thanks for helping a thankful newbie!

Everyone,

Thanks for all your help and input!

AlterCtrlEgo