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[HIAC]

Name = [Alex]

If name is does not contain anything between [] or does not contain [] at all
do something
else if name contains something in[] (e.g name: "[AB]Alex[AC]")
do something else

How can I do that?

[Spawnova]

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;Example with name being valid
Name := "[AB]Alex[AC]"
nLength := strlen(name)
if (nLength > 2) {
	str := substr(name,2,nLength-2)
	msgbox % "Name = " str
} else {
	msgbox name does not contain data
}

;example with name being invalid
Name := "[]"
nLength := strlen(name)
if (nLength > 2) {
	str := substr(name,2,nLength-2)
	msgbox % "Name = " str
} else {
	msgbox name does not contain data
}
exitapp

[HIAC]

Thanks, but in my case e.g. name "ab" should be valid and "[abc]" invalid..

[burque505]

@HIAC, @spawnova: How about this to take care of the case where the name isn't in brackets?
I put in an InputBox for testing.

Spoiler

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InputBox, NameInput, NameBox, Enter a name between []
Name := NameInput
global nLength := strlen(name)
CheckString(Name)
if (nLength > 2) {
	str := substr(name,2,nLength-2)
	msgbox % "Name = " str
} else {
	msgbox name does not contain data
}

exitapp

CheckString(Name) {
	Array := StrSplit(Name)
	If(Array[nLength]<>"]" || Array[1]<>"["){
		msgbox Name does not begin with [ and end with ], exiting
		ExitApp
	}
	return

EDIT: HIAC, just saw your post. Apparently I have it backwards. Let me fiddle with it.
REEDIT: I don't think I really understand what should be good input and bad input.
1) Is [Joe or Joe] good input? How about Sally[Carruthers?
2) How about Bill[the]Captain?
3) Will your script be prepending '[' and appending ']'?
RE-REEDIT: Ahah! I just saw your post at https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=40407, glad it's fixed.
Thanks!
Regards,
burque505

[HIAC]

Well that code is not exactly what I was looking for but does what it's supposed to in some cases. Thanks!
Look, this is what I have:

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Name := "[AA]Monkey[CC]"
RegExMatch(Name, "\[\w+\]\K\w+", NameNoTag)
MsgBox % NameNoTag

So if Name is [Alex], result will be empty which is bad, as well as Bill[the]Captain because it will capture only Captain, and Sally[Carruthers won't capture anything..

If [AA]Banana = capture "Banana"
If [AA]Carrot[BB] = capture "Carrot"
If John[The]King = capture "John[The]King "
If [Alex] = capture "Alex"

thanks for your time!

[A_AhkUser]

As burque505 I guess your question is set against the background of this other thread.
If it is, you can, alternatively, use JSON files instead.

while standard ini file looks like:

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[section]
key=value

a basic json file could be:

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{
"section": {
	"key":"value"
}
}

One of the main adavntage of json formatted data against ini is also the possibilty to create 'subsections' and thus order hierarchically each datum:

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{
"section": {
	"subsection1": {
		"[AA]BB[CC]":"value"
	}
	,"subsection2": {
		"[AA]BB[CC]":"value"
	}
}
}

...and the fact that you can store/retrieve various type of values (boolean, arrays, objects etc.):

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{
"section": {
	"key":[ true, 0.11, null, "test", {"B":"Б","TS":"Ц"}]
}
}

I just updated my JSONData class with a working example using a key such as [AA]BB[CC]. However, you'll arguably find mine not easy to use since it mixes ahk and javascript syntax sometimes (which can be nonetheless very usefull in some case) and has the drawback to require parenthesis when dot syntax style (section.subsection1.key) and bracket syntax style (section["subsection1"]) are used together to store/retrieve data... I know that Coco made a pretty good one.