RE: if statement
RE: if statement
- Subject: RE: if statement
- From: "Ruby Madraswala" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:24:56 -0500
- Thread-topic: 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
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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:
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Can anyone tell me why the second if statement does not work, while
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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
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Property hotfolder: "Data"
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Property errorfolder: "Data:deadfiles:";
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Tell application "Finder"
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Set flist to every file in folder hotfolder
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Repeat with curfile in flist
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Set nm to name of curfile as string
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(1) If nm contains "id" --- works
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Move file (hotfolder & nm) to folder errorfolder with replacing
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End if
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(2) If characters 6 thru 7 of nm = "id" - doesn't work, no error
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message, script exits and does not process remaining files in the
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folder.
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Move file (hotfolder & nm) to folder errorfolder with replacing
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End if
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(3) If characters 6 thru 7 of nm = "gs" - works
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Move file (hotfolder & nm) to folder errorfolder with replacing
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End if
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End tell
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