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RE: if statement

That's was baffled me , I have few more if statements similar that works, except the one with "id", I was wondering if "id" was some kind of a keyword.

Ruby
-----Original Message-----
From: email@hidden [mailto:email@hidden] On Behalf Of Michael Grant
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 12:43 PM
To: AppleScript-Users list
Subject: Re: if statement

On Nov 26, 2003, at 11:03 AM, Ruby Madraswala wrote:

> Can anyone tell me why the second if statement does not work, while
> the third if statement works.

'characters 6 thru 7' returns a list, not a string. The surprising part
is that the third statement works--are you sure there's not something
else going on?

Michael


> Property hotfolder: "Data"
> Property errorfolder: "Data:deadfiles:";
> Tell application "Finder"
> Set flist to every file in folder hotfolder
> Repeat with curfile in flist
> Set nm to name of curfile as string
> (1) If nm contains "id" --- works
> Move file (hotfolder & nm) to folder errorfolder with replacing
> End if
> (2) If characters 6 thru 7 of nm = "id" - doesn't work, no error
> message, script exits and does not process remaining files in the
> folder.
> Move file (hotfolder & nm) to folder errorfolder with replacing
> End if
> (3) If characters 6 thru 7 of nm = "gs" - works
> Move file (hotfolder & nm) to folder errorfolder with replacing
> End if
> End tell
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