Determine if string exists in file

Question

I have a list of strings such as:

John

John Doe

Peter Pan

in a .txt file.

I want to make a loop that checks if a ce

Answer 1

Ha ha, ep0's answer is very sophisticated!

However, you want to use a parsing loop something like this (this example expects that your names are separated by carriage returns). Consider that you have a text file with contents arranged like this:

John
Harry
Bob
Joe

Here is your script:

fileread, thistext, %whatfile%  ;get the text from the file into a variable
;Now, loop through each line and see if it matches your results:

loop, parse, thistext, `r`n, `r`n
{
  if(a_loopfield = "John")
     msgbox, Hey! It's John!
  else
     msgbox, No, it's %a_loopfield%
}

If your names are arranged in a different order, you might have to either change the delimiter for the parsing loop, or use regex instead of just a simple comparison.