Single Out the number that does not repeat

[PepsiHog]

Hello,

I have a list of window handles. Only visible ones. Then I open a new window. Then I get the new list. I am trying to get the result to be the handle that does not repeat. (The window that was just opened.)

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let>WF_TYPE=2
let>win_usehandle=1
GetWindowList>VisibleOne
StringReplace>VisibleOne,crlf,;,VisibleOne
ExecuteFile>C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe,%AttWebPage%
wait>2
GetWindowList>VisibleTwo
StringReplace>VisibleTwo,crlf,;,VisibleTwo
let>Visible=%VisibleOne%%VisibleTwo%
RegEx>\b(\d+)\b(?=.*\b\1\b)(.*),Visible,0,match,nom,1,$1,IsLeft
mdl>(%IsLeft%)%crlf%%VisibleOne%%crlf%%VisibleTwo%
exit

If I use (?!=.*\b\1\b) it still shows all the others but removes the one I want. I want IsLeft to be the new window's handle.

Please help.

Thanks,
PepsiHog

[Marcus Tettmar]

I'm not sure I understand what you want to do or whether RegEx is right for this. Can you show an example?

[mightycpa]

I do something like this for a dialog... if a user clicks on an item, and it already exists in the target dialog, then ignore it.

You can do this in a loop, but I'd also be interested in seeing it done with regular expressions.

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Let>VAREXPLICIT=0
let>WF_TYPE=2
let>win_usehandle=1
GetWindowList>VisibleOne
Separate>VisibleOne,crlf,v_old_list
wait>5
ExecuteFile>notepad.exe
wait>5
GetWindowList>VisibleTwo
Separate>VisibleTwo,crlf,v_new_list
If>v_old_list_count=v_new_list_count
  Goto>End
Endif
Let>v_decide=0
Let>v_new_items=
Let>v_delim=;
Let>k=0
Repeat>k
  Let>v_decide=0
  Let>k=k+1
  Let>j=0
  Repeat>j
    Let>j=j+1
    Let>v_new=v_new_list_%k%
    Let>v_old=v_old_list_%j%
      //MessageModal>v_old vs.  v_new
    If>%v_old%=%v_new%
      Let>v_decide=1
    Else
      Let>v_decide=v_decide+0
    Endif
  Until>j,v_new_list_count
  If>v_decide=0
      Concat>v_new_items,v_new
      //just in case there's more than one new window
      Concat>v_new_items,v_delim
  Endif
Until>k,v_old_list_count
Length>v_new_items,v_too_long
If>v_too_long=0
  Goto>End
Endif>
Let>v_just_right=v_too_long-1
MidStr>v_new_items,1,v_just_right,v_the_answer
MessageModal>v_the_answer
Label>End

I wrote this a little inefficiently for clarity.

[PepsiHog]

I am attempting to (1)get all window handles that are visible. This is the list of windows currently open. (2) Now I open a new instance of Google Chrome. (3)I get a list of all window handles again. (4)I want to remove the window handles that repeat. The new one just opened should be the only one that does not repeat in the list.

Simply put, I have a list of numbers. Some of those numbers repeat. Those numbers I want to exclude from the list. I have tried pos look-ahead and neg look-ahead. But both seem to exclude the window handle that I actually want. Can't say I understand why.

Comment: Boy, right when you think you're getting RegEx.......you get one that stumps you. Makes me realize how much I DON'T know. LOL!

Thanks for everyone that is trying to help. Sorry, I'm working on other projects as well, so I haven't been minding this post.

PepsiHog