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How do you check if a registry entry exists?

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resista#

How do you check if a registry entry exists?

I need to check if a registry entry exists! How do i do?
o_cee#
From the help:

ReadRegStr user_var(output)
root_key
sub_key
name

Reads from the registry into the user variable $x. Valid values for root_key are listed under WriteRegStr. The error flag will be set and $x will be set to an empty string ("") if the string is not present. If the value is present, but is of type REG_DWORD, it will be read and converted to a string and the error flag will be set.

ReadRegStr $0 HKLM Software\Microsoft "Foobar"
StrCmp $0 "" stringempty stringnotempty
stringempty:
blahblahblah
stringnotempty:
yddayaddayadda 
got it?
resista#
The Help also says:

The error flag will be set and $x will be set to an empty string ("") if the string is not present.