Help regarding a string

[mrdude]

I wonder if someone can help me with this:

currently my small app gets a mac address from an input box, now say the mac is in this format 001122334455 - my app changes it to 00:11:22:33:44:55 by checking the length when ctrl is pressed.

if e_Key == 17 then

checkit = Input.GetText("Inputmac");

if String.Length(checkit) == 17 then

--do nothing

elseif String.Length(checkit) <= 16 then

result = String.Mid(checkit, 1, 2);
result2 = String.Mid(checkit, 3, 2);
result3 = String.Mid(checkit, 5, 2);
result4 = String.Mid(checkit, 7, 2);
result5 = String.Mid(checkit, 9, 2);
result6 = String.Mid(checkit, 11, 2);

Input.SetText("Inputmac", result .. ":" .. result2 .. ":" .. result3 .. ":" .. result4 .. ":" .. result5 .. ":" .. result6);
end
end

I'd like to change the way it checks though, so instead of using length it searches to see if the character ":" (excluding quotes) is used - if it is it does nothing and if it isn't it adds it - just like the code above.

However I can seem to find the way in apms to do this - if anyone has any idea that would be good if you could point me in the right direction - thanks.

[jackdaniels]

1. Find the registry key for your adapter [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Cl ass\
2. Find the ID of your network adapter
example: devcon hwids PCI\VEN*

then use simple script to mask it... NOT TESTED

@echo off
set ip=182.31.24.21
set mac=4C0010524026
set interface=Local Area Network
set mask=255.255.255.0
set gateway=182.31.24.1
set dns1=212.221.112.2
rem ======================
set metric=0
set mac_reg=[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\0002]
devcon disable PCI\VEN_10EC
echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 > tmp%interface%.reg
echo %mac_reg% >> tmp%interface%.reg
echo "networkaddress"="%mac%" >> tmp%interface%.reg
regedit /s tmp%interface%.reg
del tmp%interface%.reg
netsh interface ip set address name=%interface% static %ip% %mask% %gateway% %metric%
netsh interface ip set dns name=%interface% static %dns1%
devcon enable PCI\VEN_10EC

[Desrat]

if e_Key == 17 then

checkit = Input.GetText("Inputmac");

[COLOR="Red"][B]nSearch = String.Find(checkit, ":", 1, false);

	if nSearch ~= -1 then
[/B][/COLOR]
		if String.Length(checkit) == 17 then

			--do nothing

		elseif String.Length(checkit) <= 16 then

		result = String.Mid(checkit, 1, 2);
		result2 = String.Mid(checkit, 3, 2);
		result3 = String.Mid(checkit, 5, 2);
		result4 = String.Mid(checkit, 7, 2);
		result5 = String.Mid(checkit, 9, 2);
		result6 = String.Mid(checkit, 11, 2);

		Input.SetText("Inputmac", result .. ":" .. result2 .. ":" .. result3 .. ":" .. result4 .. ":" .. result5 .. ":" .. result6);

		end

	[B][COLOR="Red"]end[/COLOR][/B]
	
end

[mrdude]

Thanks guys, that's great & much appreciated. Cheers