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Subject: Using the filter form
From: "Hoelzer, Manfred" <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:48:06 +0100

> hi, Scripters
>
> I've tried in vain to substitute a repeat-loop with a filter construct.
> It is surely very simple to make the commented line in the script below
> working.
> The examples in AS Language Guide ("whose", "where" in conjunction with
> "it") were enlighting but I could not make it work with Palm Desktop.
>
> Do you know how the correct syntax should be?
>
>
> ------------------------------ Script ------------
> set partPhone to "1313" -- just one extension
>
> tell application "Palm(tm) Desktop"
> set thePerson to the full informal name of name info of address 3 -- just
> that a value is assigned to thePerson
>
> repeat with addr from 1 to count of every address
> if full phone of phone 1 of address addr contains partPhone then
> set thePerson to full name of name info of address addr
> end if
> end repeat
> -- set thePerson to first name of name info of every address whose ->
> (full phone of phone 1 of it contains partPhone)
> end tell
>
> display dialog thePerson
> ------------------------------ Script ------------
>
> thanks in advance and ...keep scripting ;-)
>
> Manfred

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