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Posted: **20 Jul 2018, 18:31**

See in my code here, I just want to check if the line contains a word, but it does not work

dummytext =
(
first line
second line
third line
forth line
)

Loop, parse, dummytext, `n, `r
{

      if (A_LoopField contains "second") ; if I change this to: if (A_LoopField = "second line") everything works
      {
         continue
      }
   tlines%A_Index% := A_LoopField 
   thevars .= "tlines" A_Index " = " tlines%A_Index% "`n"
   tht = %a_index%
}

MsgBox, %thevars% `n total loops %tht%
ExitApp

Posted: **20 Jul 2018, 18:37**

Well, the docs say, contains is not supported in expressions. Hence, I guess, the () with If won't work. But you don't need it. And of course, the Matchlist takes "s literally. So...

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dummytext =
(
first line
second line
third line
forth line
)

Loop, parse, dummytext, `n, `r
{

      if A_LoopField contains second ; if I change this to: if (A_LoopField = "second line") everything works
      {
         continue
      }
   tlines%A_Index% := A_LoopField 
   thevars .= "tlines" A_Index " = " tlines%A_Index% "`n"
   tht = %a_index%
}

MsgBox, %thevars% `n total loops %tht%
ExitApp

Posted: **20 Jul 2018, 18:48**

thank you gregster

Posted: **20 Jul 2018, 18:55**

You are welcome!
I just noticed that if the last line of the dummytext contains second, this last iteration won't be counted for the total loops (because Continue will end the loop in this case, before the tht variable can be updated... you could probably move this last line of the loop to the beginning of the loop in order to fix that (if it is important).

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