At 06:55 9.10.2000 -0400, you wrote:
>set tempcheck1 = char 1 of gcommstring
>if (tempcheck1=P then PLAY)
>
>Now though I cannot use this technique because I do not know which order a
>very long string will be arriving in. I'd basically like to look for a name
>and then read it's value. Data will be arriving in the following as below:
>
>RAE 123 LLF 225.........
>
>In this example RAE is a variable and 123 is it's value. I'd like to look for
>it in a string and record it's value.
What about something like:
requiredVariable = "RAE"
thisMany = the number of words of gcommstring
repeat with x = 1 to thisMany
if word x of gcommstring = requiredVariable then
myValue = word x + 1 of gcommstring
exit repeat
else
x = x + 1
end if
end repeat
Cheers
Owen
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