Hi folks,
I've posted this question to Stack Overflow -
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17639968/livecode-find-list-items-within-a-table-field
- but it seems very quiet over there on LiveCode matters, so apologies for t
the cross-posting.
I'm trying to use LiveCode to clean up some contact data. I have two lists:
SourceList: a list of tab-delimited contact records in a LiveCode table
field;
FlagList: a list of strings, such as 'test' that I want to check for
within the SourceList.
Ideally, I want to highlight 'hits' in both the FlagList rows and the matching
characters in the items in the rows of the SourceList, but I'm struggling with
errors on my first pass.
On loading the SourceList from file, I'm trying to set the colour of any
FlagList field rows that are found in the SourceList.
Here's the script on the 'Load SourceList' button...
on mouseUp
answer file "Select text file to Clean" with type "txt"
if it <> "" then
put empty into field "SourceList"
put it into field "SourceFile"
put it into theFilePath
put URL ("file:" & theFilePath) into field "SourceList"
repeat for each line f in field "FlagList"
repeat for each line l in field "SourceList"
repeat for each item i in l
if i contains f then set the foregroundColor of f to "red"
end repeat
end repeat
end repeat
else
--no file was selected, or cancel was pressed
beep
end if
end mouseUp
I think I'm making a basic error, so grateful for any guidance.
Best,
Keith..
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