Why isn't Rev more popular?

Chipp Walters chipp at chipp.com
Sat Dec 3 18:06:55 EST 2005


You could use:

if "fred" is not in myVar then...

?

Sarah Reichelt wrote:
>>...and that, of course, is the problem with Transcript being
>>"English-like"... you tend to think that it *should* respond to
>>English commands. In English
>>
>>hide field "xxx"    and
>>if field "xxx" is hidden
>>
> 
> 
> The one that always irks me is "contains" and it's opposite.
>    if myVar contains "fred"
> This is simple and obvious, but there isn't an easy way to reverse it,
> so you have to use:
>    if myVar contains "fred" is false
> 
> where I always feel you should be able to use something like:
>    if myVar does not contain "fred"




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