if( $title and $title =~ /$searchString/ )
This expression will not work properly if $title is something that evaluates to false, such as the empty string ('') or some form of zero (see True or False? A Quick Reference Guide </shameless_plug>), since the first part (if $title) will short circuit. Using defined $title should fix it. It is unlikely that a window would have such a silly name, but I've learned anything can happen in the wild...

In addition, since the regex does not anchor to the beginning and end of the string, it could return an incorrect result if the pattern is a substring of the title. Adding anchors or using 'eq' instead of the regex would tighten up the match so only the exact title would match.

Finally, two different windows could have the same title, or an instance of the app could already be open when testing is started. To ensure the window in question opens as a result of the test, it might be useful to compare this list to a list of windows that were open immediately before the test. In other words, call FindWindowLike() before the test opens the window in question. Aside: It appears that FindWindowLike() can take a regex as a parameter. Is there any reason you can't use that to narrow the search so only possible matches are returned to the 'for' loop?

All that said, I agree that this is a nice snippet. Thanks to the OP for posting it. :-)

In reply to Re^2: Confirm an application opens (win32) by bobf
in thread Confirm an application opens (win32) by technojosh

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