Re: if statement
Re: if statement
- Subject: Re: if statement
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:07:48 -0500
I think there are several problems that you may be having, First of
all, when the first if statement works then the file will be moved and
will not be around for subsequent if statements, causing the script to
have an error and quit. Secondly if you use "characters 6 thru 7" you
will get a list of both characters, not a string that you can use to
compare to another string. You should use "text 6 thru 7" instead
Lastly you should do a check to see if the file name is larger than 6
characters so the "text 6 thru 7" statement works.
The following code seems to work fine. I nested the if statements as I
think you wanted them and I changed the "characters 6 thru.." to "text
6 thru..." so that you would be comparing a string to a string instead
of a list to a string. I also added the file name length sanity check.
- Ken
code:
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property hotfolder : ((path to desktop as string) & "
Data:";)
property errorfolder : (hotfolder & "deadfiles:")
tell application "Finder"
set flist to every file of folder hotfolder
repeat with curfile in flist
set nm to name of curfile as string
if nm contains "id" then
if (length of nm is greater than 6) then
if (text 6 thru 7 of nm) = "id" then
move file (hotfolder & nm) to folder errorfolder with
replacing
end if
end if
else
if (length of nm is greater than 6) then
if (text 6 thru 7 of nm) = "gs" then
move file (hotfolder & nm) to folder errorfolder with
replacing
end if
end if
end if
end repeat
end tell
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On Nov 26, 2003, at 12:03 PM, Ruby Madraswala wrote:
Can anyone tell me why the second if statement does not work, while
the third if statement works.
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
Filename: v8888id ("id" is always the 6th and 7th character of
filename)
Thanks in advance
Ruby
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