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On Sep 12, 2008, at 11:18 AM, David A. Cox wrote:

I am looking to choose a variable based on some user input. I thought it would be most efficient via something like what I have below, but it is not working for me, and I have not found a good way to get it to actually do what I want. Rather than get one of the items from the list that exists (what I want) I get a random letter from the name of the list. I can fully see why this is happening, but I am not seeing a way around this. If this is not possible, I can go the about the longer way of aiming at the list, but that will be sort of a pain with 26 lists to choose from.

set NounToUse to "Hoover"

set TheListToUse to (the first character of NounToUse) & "List"

set HList to {"Hankering", "Horrible", "Helping handed", "Harping", "Hardboiled", "Hairbrained", "Hippity Hoppity", "Hatchet nosed"}

set the list_count to the count of TheListToUse
set pick to random number from 1 to list_count
set AdjectiveToUse to item pick of TheListToUse as string

return AdjectiveToUse & " " & NounToUse

set noun to "Hoover"

set HList to {"Hankering", "Horrible", "Helping handed", "Harping", "Hardboiled", "Hairbrained", "Hippity Hoppity", "Hatchet nosed"}

--set adj to first word of (some item of HList)

set adj to some item of HList

adj & space & noun

References:
	>trying to build text in an applescript to point to a variable (From: "David A. Cox" <email@hidden>)