Re: Filemaker: whose cell is... doesn't search exact
Re: Filemaker: whose cell is... doesn't search exact
- Subject: Re: Filemaker: whose cell is... doesn't search exact
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 08:13:04 +1000
On 12/7/01 3:10 AM +1000, cris, email@hidden, wrote:
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But strangely it works when i do the
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comparison in the repeat loop:
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cell "bla" of record id RecID is "hello cris"
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Then it returns false as expected when the cell value is _any_ different. It
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only fails when "whose" is used. Strange.
In the comparison above, the script first gets the value of cell "bla" of
record id RecID, and then AppleScript does the comparison -- thus, it gets
an exact match (ignoring case). When you use a whose clause, FileMaker does
the comparison, using its own rules.
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden