Questin regarding If / Then statements

[Steve]

I have a routine that captures the WIFI name of whatever wifi I'm connected to.  The issue is when I want to compare it to a specific list or wifi for an if / then statement.

If %WifiName2 -R %HomeSSID Then

    <actions>

End If

or 

If %WifiName2 ~R *specific wifi* Then

    <actions>

End If

The issue is that this will always fail, even if I get the wifi name directly before the If statement.  If I change the statement to If %HomeSSID -R %WifiName2, then everything works fine and the task fires off like it's supposed to.

Why is that?  I clear the WifiName2 before getting the new WIFI name, just to be sure I'm not holding onto old data, just as a precaution.

[Rich D]

Why is that?  

It is in the user guide under "flow control"

• Matches Regex (~R)
  The right parameter is a regular expression which the left parameter is matched against.

 

[aa6vh]

Note that location services needs to be enabled in order to see Wifi names.