Registry problems

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(imported topic written by sinucus)

I’m having some problems writing some relevance and I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong. I know I’ve read the proper why to handle this but I’m at a loss right now.

I need to check the registry to see if a 2 values exist and in a certain condition. If they don’t exist in that condition I want it to report as true. Here is what I have

if (not exists value “ActionCount” of key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Tivoli” of registry) then true else if ((exists value “Version” whose (it as string = “5”) of key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Tivoli” of registry) AND (value “ActionCount” of key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Tivoli” of registry as integer > 2)) then false else true

So what I’m looking for is to see if the entire hive exists, if it doesn’t, true.

If the Version is != 5, true

If the Version is = 5 AND ActionCount > 2 = false, else true. I.e. if it’s 1 or 2 true

I keep running into problems with one of the values doesn’t exist. I’m getting the “Singular expression refers to nonexistent object.” errors. Thanks

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(imported comment written by MattPeterson)

If one of those values or keys do not exist then your statment will not work. You could add a couple | statements so if those statements error then try the next statement. Try this:

q:

if

(
not

exists

value

“ActionCount”

of

key

“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Tivoli”

of

registry

|

true
)

then

true

else

if

((
exists

value

“Version”

whose

(
it

as

string

=

“5”
)

of

key

“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Tivoli”

of

registry

|

false
)

AND

(value

“ActionCount”

of

key

“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Tivoli”

of

registry

as

integer

2

|

false
))

then

false

else

true

A:
True

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(imported comment written by sinucus)

thanks, I’ll give that a shot.