Re: Handler defies logic
Re: Handler defies logic
- Subject: Re: Handler defies logic
- From: Rich Carroll <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:31:02 -0500
This still iterates through a second time concatenating to the first run
through.
Thanks
Rich
On 9/25/03 10:47 AM, "Michelle Steiner" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 06:26 AM, Rich Carroll wrote:
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> What am I missing? Thanks in advance for your help.
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This will do it:
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property validChars : ,
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"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890" as
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Unicode text
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global folderDescript
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global txt
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on run
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validateFolderDescript("")
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end run
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on validateFolderDescript(folderDescript)
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set txt to (text returned of (display dialog "Enter main ,
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folder description.
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Maximum of 24 alphanumeric characters." default answer ,
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"myJobFolder")) as string
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set chars to count txt
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if chars is greater than 24 then
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display dialog "Maximum of 24 characters"
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validateFolderDescript("") of me
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end if
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repeat with i in txt
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if i is in validChars then
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set folderDescript to folderDescript & i
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else
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display dialog "\"" & i & "\"" & " is a bad character.,
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You may only use numbers or letters"
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validateFolderDescript("") of me
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end if
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end repeat
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set folderDescript to "_" & folderDescript
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end validateFolderDescript
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--Michelle
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Are you better off today than you were on Jan 20th, 2001?
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--
Richard McCormick-Carroll
Application Specialist
Capps Digital Development Group
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