Hyphen as A String in a Variable??

[CGooley]

Hi,

I am trying to see if a variable contains an hyphen. I am sure this is a very simple question; I simply can't get the hyphen to be recognized as a string. Below is my code:

Let>hyphen=-

//Check if variable contains "-"
Pos>hyphen,accountname,1,posText
If>posText>0
//variable contains substring
//close the window
MouseMove>1257,3
LClick
setfocus>Account Locate*
//click in results box
Press Down
Press Enter
Goto>verify
Endif

This works for other characters, for example if I say hyphen=R. Just wondering the syntax for making the hyphen string?

Thank you, and apologies for this beginner question. [snippet=][/snippet]

[Dorian (MJT support)]

That does work. My guess is maybe that accountname doesn't exist or doesn't contain a hyphen? If we make sure it exists and contains a hyphen we can see the code works.

Both of these work :

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Let>accountname=qwerty-uiop
Let>hyphen=-
//Check if variable contains "-"
Pos>hyphen,accountname,1,posText
If>posText>0
  MDL>I see it!
Endif

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Let>accountname=qwerty-uiop
//Check if variable contains "-"
Pos>-,accountname,1,posText
If>posText>0
  MDL>I see it again!
Endif

[CGooley]

This ended up working, thank you!