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Re: List filtering - help


  • Subject: Re: List filtering - help
  • From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 06:51:39 +1000


On 16/05/2007, at 3:49 AM, Patrik B. wrote:

Hi Malcolm,

Thanks for the tip on offset. I tried it and in theory it works. However I
forgot to mention another part of my script.


I basically dump all file names that are in a certain folder into a list.

So my list becomes filenames lets say "GO", "SMO", "TOE", "GER", "FRE", "ITA"

I then want to check if GER appears in the list and if not have its name
thrown back at me.


if I use the repeat through each item then I get the file thrown back at me 5
times as it does not appear 5 times. But I want to know if it exists as a
single entity so to speak in the list at all and based on that throw the name
back at me.



-- one way is to ignore duplicates set end of l to newItem unless l contains newItem

-- another way is to exit the loop when you get a result
	if "abc" contains "g" then exit repeat

-- or, only proceed if the conditions are right
  repeat with newItem in {"a",3,"g"}
	set x to class of newItem is not text -- or whatever test it takes
	if x then
	  -- do something
	end
  end



malcolm

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