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Re: If Statements


  • Subject: Re: If Statements
  • From: William J Sisti <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:14:49 -0400
  • Thread-topic: If Statements

Title: Re: If Statements
Alright, dumb question. How do I compile it to distribute the script to users as a simple double click and run application?  Hitting compile doesn’t do anything.

-Will


On 9/11/08 8:54 AM, "William J Sisti" <email@hidden> wrote:

This worked perfectly with a nested if else.

Thanks,

-Will

On 9/11/08 8:26 AM, "Matthew Smith" <email@hidden> wrote:

on 11/09/2008 22:14 , William J Sisti at email@hidden wrote:

I have a If statement that checks users user name.  Teachers use first initial and last name and students go by a number.  So right now my Else if looks like this:

If (username > 1 and username <10)
    do this
Else if (username > 11 and username < 20)
    do this other thing
Else
    do this third thing

End it


The problem is that the script doesn’t like trying to figure out if wsisti is between 1 and 10 or 11 and 20.  “Can’t make kbasovsky into type number, date or text”.
My alternative is to add a another question to ask if they are a student or teacher and handle it that way, but I would rather not.

Your script is trying to convert username to a number so it can compare it with a number. It is a string. You can catch the error to determine if it is a number in a string or other type of text.

set username to "abc"
try
   username + 10
   set isTeacher to false
on error
   set isTeacher to true
end try
if
isTeacher then
  ...
else
   ...
end if


This will try to convert username to a number so it can add 10. The “on error” will be triggered if it can’t convert it.


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