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On 2009-06-10, at 14:20:43, Pascal van den Bulck wrote:

That’s exactly my goal: finding a specific image and placing it into Quark. And it works too, but it works slow with large amounts of images.

I’m currently using listcomparison/list position to place some logo-images (less than 20 images), but how would you go about working with index files?
Would you use records e.g {filename, filepath} ?

What I’m searching for is a method that will leap through the amount of images:
Product “123-456-78” has corresponding images whose name contains “12345678”, e.g. “12345678-01”, “12345678-02”
Is there a way to check the first two numbers, the second two, the third two, the seventh and finaly the last number ?
In this case, any image that would not start with “12” would be ignored, with “1234”, with “123456” and so on until you find the specific images.

There are a couple of useful techniques to speed up list searches and string compares but instead of loading every file but I think it better to limit the list size in the first place. Something like this:

set fold to (choose folder)

set name_key to "123-456-78"

set prefix to (words of name_key as text) -- "12345678"

tell application "System Events"

every file of fold whose name begins with prefix and kind contains "image"

end tell

Philip Aker

References:
	>Re: How to manage image-list (From: "Pascal van den Bulck" <email@hidden>)