Wildcard characters in Inno Setup (test if there is any value after fixed string prefix)












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Is there some wildcard characters for Inno Setup? I am trying to go through string and if there is some value that I'm searching for, the program should return 1 (I'm using Pos() function that already does what I need), but my problem here is that the part of string that I'm searching for is not static, so I need some wildcard character like * that can replace one or more characters.






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  • Do you mean that you want a pattern like aaa*bbb? - I.e. you want to test if a string contains both aaa and bbb - in that order.

    – Martin Prikryl
    Nov 20 '18 at 10:22











  • No, I want to check if there are any characters after some part of string inside that string. For example, if the string is Listing connections...guest 127.0.0.1 , I want to check if there is something after Listing connections... , and this guest 127.0.0.1 wont be static, it might change, and in case that it changes I want to check if there is anything after that first part of the string.

    – Petar
    Nov 20 '18 at 10:28
















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Is there some wildcard characters for Inno Setup? I am trying to go through string and if there is some value that I'm searching for, the program should return 1 (I'm using Pos() function that already does what I need), but my problem here is that the part of string that I'm searching for is not static, so I need some wildcard character like * that can replace one or more characters.






inno-setup pascalscript







share|improve this question

























  • Do you mean that you want a pattern like aaa*bbb? - I.e. you want to test if a string contains both aaa and bbb - in that order.

    – Martin Prikryl
    Nov 20 '18 at 10:22











  • No, I want to check if there are any characters after some part of string inside that string. For example, if the string is Listing connections...guest 127.0.0.1 , I want to check if there is something after Listing connections... , and this guest 127.0.0.1 wont be static, it might change, and in case that it changes I want to check if there is anything after that first part of the string.

    – Petar
    Nov 20 '18 at 10:28














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Is there some wildcard characters for Inno Setup? I am trying to go through string and if there is some value that I'm searching for, the program should return 1 (I'm using Pos() function that already does what I need), but my problem here is that the part of string that I'm searching for is not static, so I need some wildcard character like * that can replace one or more characters.






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Is there some wildcard characters for Inno Setup? I am trying to go through string and if there is some value that I'm searching for, the program should return 1 (I'm using Pos() function that already does what I need), but my problem here is that the part of string that I'm searching for is not static, so I need some wildcard character like * that can replace one or more characters.






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  • Do you mean that you want a pattern like aaa*bbb? - I.e. you want to test if a string contains both aaa and bbb - in that order.

    – Martin Prikryl
    Nov 20 '18 at 10:22











  • No, I want to check if there are any characters after some part of string inside that string. For example, if the string is Listing connections...guest 127.0.0.1 , I want to check if there is something after Listing connections... , and this guest 127.0.0.1 wont be static, it might change, and in case that it changes I want to check if there is anything after that first part of the string.

    – Petar
    Nov 20 '18 at 10:28



















  • Do you mean that you want a pattern like aaa*bbb? - I.e. you want to test if a string contains both aaa and bbb - in that order.

    – Martin Prikryl
    Nov 20 '18 at 10:22











  • No, I want to check if there are any characters after some part of string inside that string. For example, if the string is Listing connections...guest 127.0.0.1 , I want to check if there is something after Listing connections... , and this guest 127.0.0.1 wont be static, it might change, and in case that it changes I want to check if there is anything after that first part of the string.

    – Petar
    Nov 20 '18 at 10:28

















Do you mean that you want a pattern like aaa*bbb? - I.e. you want to test if a string contains both aaa and bbb - in that order.

– Martin Prikryl
Nov 20 '18 at 10:22





Do you mean that you want a pattern like aaa*bbb? - I.e. you want to test if a string contains both aaa and bbb - in that order.

– Martin Prikryl
Nov 20 '18 at 10:22













No, I want to check if there are any characters after some part of string inside that string. For example, if the string is Listing connections...guest 127.0.0.1 , I want to check if there is something after Listing connections... , and this guest 127.0.0.1 wont be static, it might change, and in case that it changes I want to check if there is anything after that first part of the string.

– Petar
Nov 20 '18 at 10:28





No, I want to check if there are any characters after some part of string inside that string. For example, if the string is Listing connections...guest 127.0.0.1 , I want to check if there is something after Listing connections... , and this guest 127.0.0.1 wont be static, it might change, and in case that it changes I want to check if there is anything after that first part of the string.

– Petar
Nov 20 '18 at 10:28












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There's no pattern matching functionality in Inno Setup Pascal Script.



But you can use a function like this:





function AnythingAfterPrefix(S: string; Prefix: string): Boolean;

begin

  Result := 

     (Copy(S, 1, Length(Prefix)) = Prefix) and

     (Length(S) > Length(Prefix));

end;


And use it like:



if AnythingAfterPrefix(S, 'Listing connections...') then


You may want to add TrimRight to ignore trailing spaces:



if AnythingAfterPrefix(TrimRight(S), 'Listing connections...') then





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  • Thanks @Martin Prikryl, the king of Inno Setup on Stack Overflow. :)

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There's no pattern matching functionality in Inno Setup Pascal Script.



But you can use a function like this:





function AnythingAfterPrefix(S: string; Prefix: string): Boolean;

begin

  Result := 

     (Copy(S, 1, Length(Prefix)) = Prefix) and

     (Length(S) > Length(Prefix));

end;


And use it like:



if AnythingAfterPrefix(S, 'Listing connections...') then


You may want to add TrimRight to ignore trailing spaces:



if AnythingAfterPrefix(TrimRight(S), 'Listing connections...') then





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  • Thanks @Martin Prikryl, the king of Inno Setup on Stack Overflow. :)

    – Petar
    Nov 20 '18 at 10:55


















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There's no pattern matching functionality in Inno Setup Pascal Script.



But you can use a function like this:





function AnythingAfterPrefix(S: string; Prefix: string): Boolean;

begin

  Result := 

     (Copy(S, 1, Length(Prefix)) = Prefix) and

     (Length(S) > Length(Prefix));

end;


And use it like:



if AnythingAfterPrefix(S, 'Listing connections...') then


You may want to add TrimRight to ignore trailing spaces:



if AnythingAfterPrefix(TrimRight(S), 'Listing connections...') then





share|improve this answer
























  • Thanks @Martin Prikryl, the king of Inno Setup on Stack Overflow. :)

    – Petar
    Nov 20 '18 at 10:55
















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There's no pattern matching functionality in Inno Setup Pascal Script.



But you can use a function like this:





function AnythingAfterPrefix(S: string; Prefix: string): Boolean;

begin

  Result := 

     (Copy(S, 1, Length(Prefix)) = Prefix) and

     (Length(S) > Length(Prefix));

end;


And use it like:



if AnythingAfterPrefix(S, 'Listing connections...') then


You may want to add TrimRight to ignore trailing spaces:



if AnythingAfterPrefix(TrimRight(S), 'Listing connections...') then





share|improve this answer













There's no pattern matching functionality in Inno Setup Pascal Script.



But you can use a function like this:





function AnythingAfterPrefix(S: string; Prefix: string): Boolean;

begin

  Result := 

     (Copy(S, 1, Length(Prefix)) = Prefix) and

     (Length(S) > Length(Prefix));

end;


And use it like:



if AnythingAfterPrefix(S, 'Listing connections...') then


You may want to add TrimRight to ignore trailing spaces:



if AnythingAfterPrefix(TrimRight(S), 'Listing connections...') then






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  • Thanks @Martin Prikryl, the king of Inno Setup on Stack Overflow. :)

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  • Thanks @Martin Prikryl, the king of Inno Setup on Stack Overflow. :)

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