About asterisk in window title

[Okapi]

Hi, in this part of script, I want to use asterisk wildcard to specify just a part of window title, but it doesn't work

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GetActiveWindow>title,x,y
If>{(%title%="google*") OR (%title%="yahoo*")}
  //do something
Endif

This one doesn't work too :

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Let>title1=google*
Let>title2=yahoo*
GetActiveWindow>title,x,y
If>{(%title%=%title1%) OR (%title%=%title2%)}
  //do something
Endif

Thanks for help

[Marcus Tettmar]

The asterisk is used only within the Window functions. But above you are comparing strings. What you want to do is do a substring check or RegEx match. E.g.:

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GetActiveWindow>title,x,y
Position>google,title,1,pGoogle
Position>yahoo,title,2,pYahoo
If>{(%pGoogle%>0) OR (%pYahoo%>0)}
  //do something
Endif

The Position command returns the starting position of one string in another. So if google is in title you will get a result of greater than zero. Look at the Position command in the help file.

Note that the above does not consider case.

You could shorten the above and make it case insensitive in one line using:

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GetActiveWindow>title,x,y
If>{(Pos("google",lower(%title%))>0) OR (Pos("yahoo",lower(%title%))>0)}
  //do something
Endif

Another way to do it is to use RegEx:

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GetActiveWindow>title,x,y
RegEx>google|yahoo,title,0,matches,num_matches,0
If>num_matches>0
  //do something
Endif

Note that by default regex is case insensitive so the above is a little simpler.

[Okapi]

Okay. First one doesn't work, the tow others work perfect. Thanks

[Marcus Tettmar]

The first one DOES work (it does what is asked of it) but is case sensitive so may not work for you. The others are not case sensitive.