I am trying to step thru a list of 27,000 addresses delimited with the "�"
character and then checking against a name list for addresses to be removed,
which I am doing by simply replacing them with a "� Deleted" string.
this seems simple enough, but something is not working . . .
on mouseUp
set the caseSensitive to false
set the itemdelimiter to "�"
answer file "Select A Text File"
put it into tPath
put url ("file:"&tPath) into theFileData
put field "tTextField" into theNamestoRemove
#a list of about 120 names we don't want on the lst
repeat for each item x in theFileData
repeat for each line y in theNamestoRemove
if x contains y then
put "� Deleted" & cr into item x of theFileData
# the above line is the problem, x at this point contains\
# the data in that item, the complete address, and is not the ordinal
# number of the item in theFiledata that is a match in that repeat loop.
end if
end repeat
end repeat
put theFileData into url ("file:"&tPath)
end mouseUp
The repeat handler could be written like this and would be "iron clad" but
take a horrendously long time:
set the itemdelimiter to "�"
repeat with x = 1 to (the number of items of theFileData)
repeat with y = 1 to the number of lines of theNamestoRemove
if item x of theFileData contains (line y of theNamestoRemove) then
put "� Deleted" & cr into item x of theFileData
end if
end repeat
end repeat
thanks!
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Sivakatirswami
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