Filter Command

[Jim Ault]

Experiment with the following:
My preferred method for this is to copy and paste into BBEdit (I am on a
Mac) and look for high/low ASCII invisibles.
This is especially true if the list is derived from a web source.

--- Alternately
--------------- start copy
put url theHeadlinesFile into headlineList
filter headlineList with "TSE" -- to get a list of only those lines
set the itemdel to tab
repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines in headlineList
   get the number of chars in (item 2 of line x of headlineList)
   put (the number of chars in it) into (item 1 of line x of headlineList)
end repeat
breakpoint
---------------- end copy
..then see if the numbers add up like you think
There could be 'hidden' characters confusing the filter command

In that case the answer would be to [if the char was (11)]
replace numtochar(11) with "" in headlineList
before doing the filter command

Jim Ault
Las Vegas

On 11/21/05 11:29 AM, "Gregory Lypny" <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I'm having a bit of trouble with the Filter command giving me false
> positives.  I'm picking off company names in a file containing news
> headlines.  The headlines file has one headline per line, and each
> line is tab delimited, where the first item is a unique story number
> and the second is the actual headline.  It looks something like this:
> 
> 1 tab First headline text
> 2 tab Second headline text
> 3 tab Third headline text
> ...
> 
> My search command is of the form
> 
>    filter it with "*" & tab & "*" & companyName & "*"
> 
> This seems to works fine for all my companies except for "TSE 100
> Index Participation Fund Units".  I'm getting a lot of hits that
> contain "TSE" (Toronto Stock Exchange) in the headline but not the
> rest of the name.  This does not happen with other long names or
> names that have a common proper noun (e.g., Canada Bread gives me
> four hits all mentioning Canada Bread and none mentioning Canada or
> Bread alone).
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
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