Yeah same difference.
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Timothy Miller <
gand...@doctortimothymiller.com> wrote:
> Thankya Mike,
>
> If I understand you correctly, my script probably works right, might be a
> little kludgy. Another way to end the search is to look for "not found" in
> the result.
>
> Hope I got that right.
>
> I'm still studying your foundChunk script.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim
>
>
> On Mar 10, 2012, at 5:23 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
>
> > The result will contain "not found" if there is no match, and also on the
> > find after the last chunk is found at which points it resets to the
> start.
> >
> > Something like the following is pretty straight forward, could be
> adjusted
> > to accept card names as an additional argument so you could loop through
> > all the cardnames (think thats already been suggested?)
> >
> > And then have the inner loop call the find function to build up your
> lists
> > of foundchunks.
> >
> > on mouseUp
> > -- could add a repeat for each line tName in the cardnames of this
> stack..
> > repeat until (findIt("asd","foo")) is "not found"
> > put the foundchunk & return after tVar
> > end repeat
> > end mouseUp
> >
> > function findit tString,tField --could add a card name argument and
> adjust
> > the find.
> > find tstring in field tField
> > return the result
> > end findit
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Timothy Miller <
> > gand...@doctortimothymiller.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Mar 9, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Timothy Miller wrote:
> >>
> >>> Oops. Forgot how to do this. Knew it once. I don't write scripts every
> >> day. Not even every month.
> >>>
> >>> Please remind me how to write a script that finds and records every
> >> instance of a string in field "foo" I know how to write repeat loops,
> but
> >> can't remember how to keep finding and then exit when the last instance
> is
> >> found.
> >>
> >> Predictably, I didn't understand the advice I got, though I do
> appreciate
> >> it. With enough study, I could have figured it out. Instead, I tried to
> >> remember the way I've done it in the past, combined with trial and
> error.
> >>
> >> The string I want to find is "Card ID"
> >>
> >> I came up with this
> >>
> >> repeat
> >> find string "card ID" in field "narrative"
> >> if the foundChunk is not empty then
> >> put the foundChunk && "of card ID" && the short Id of this card
> >> into tVar
> >> if tVar is not among the lines of bigVar then
> >> put tVar & return after bigVar
> >> else
> >> exit repeat
> >> end if
> >> end if
> >> end repeat
> >>
> >> This is primitive, hyperCard-like scripting I suppose. That's how homey
> >> rolls. It seems to work. Is this a bad way to do it? Is there a clearly
> >> better way?
> >>
> >> As far as I can tell, in a repeat loop, the "find" command somehow keeps
> >> track of the last found item and moves on to find the next one, but
> repeats
> >> forever unless you script some way to detect duplicate foundChunks and
> >> exit. Correct?
> >>
> >> I have another question before I can make this script do what I want,
> but
> >> I'll start a new thread, to avoid confusion.
> >>
> >> Tim
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