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Cocoa Dev
Cocoa Dev

Reputation: 9541

VBS and Regular Expressions

I am new to RegEx. Can anyone tell me if it's possible to determine if a file name has a specific word in it (like email or games).

And is RegEx the best way to find out? If not what is the best (simplist) way to do this?

Any code samples would be appreciated.

Regards

Upvotes: 2

Views: 515

Answers (2)

Cocoa Dev
Cocoa Dev

Reputation: 9541

This is the code I used for finding out if a file name has a specific word in it.

Set objRE = New RegExp
objRE.Global     = True
objRE.IgnoreCase = False
objRE.Pattern    = WScript.Arguments(0)

For Each objFile In colFiles
   bMatch = objRE.Test(objFile.Name)
   If bMatch Then
      WScript.Echo objFile.Name
      objFile.Delete
   End If
Next

Upvotes: 0

Ash Burlaczenko
Ash Burlaczenko

Reputation: 25435

No regex isn't the best way. Use InStr like below

Dim str, check
str = "filename.txt"
check = "file"
If InStr(1, str, check) > 0 Then
    'Contains
Else
    'Does not contain
End If

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 6

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