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Re: Search Contacts for phone number
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Re: Search Contacts for phone number


  • Subject: Re: Search Contacts for phone number
  • From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 10:37:06 +0200

Le 21 sept. 2014 à 23:33, Bill Vlahos a écrit :

> How do I AppleScript a search of the Contacts application if I know the phone number? The application is a CallerID lookup so I just need to return the first name in the Mac Contacts application that has the phone number I’m searching for.
>
> [...]
>
> This script does NOT work to find every contact by phone number and results in the error below. What am I doing wrong?
> tell application "Contacts"
> 	get name of first person whose phone contains "805"
> end tell

Hello Bill,

I'm a bit late and you already got a lot of replies.
Anyway, here's an additional approach, supposed to let Contacts do all the hard work:

	tell application "Contacts"
		people whose (class of (first phone whose value contains "805") is phone)
	end tell

Seems to be fine here, on 10.8.5.
As far as efficiency is concerned... I don't know: I've only a little list of contacts...

Fetching the name of the first person meeting the search criterion is just a matter of replacing "people whose ..." by " name of first contact whose ..." (with some provision for the "not found" case, of course).

Anecdotally,
Axel




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