Looping

[David Burgun]

Hi,

In general, you just create a number of loops! Like so:


repeat with myLineCount = 1 to the number of lines in myList
--
--  LineCount will now be set to 1, 2, 3, etc. until the end of the  
list is reached, so
--
     put line myLineCount of myList into myLineText

--
--  Will put the text of the line specified by myLineCount into  
myLineText, if you now wanted to loop thru each 
--  of the characters in myLineText, you would just do this:
--
     repeat with myCharCount = 1 to the number of chars in myLineText
     put char myCharCount of myLineText into myChar
     if myChar = "A" then
          beep
     end if
     end repeat
end repeat

You can do this with items, lines, characters etc, you just specify  
the type of container you are accessing (e.g. line, item, word, char,  
etc.).

You can also use this form of repeat

repeat with each line myLineText in myList

-- This just sets myLineText to each line in myList starting at the  
beginning.

end repeat

Hope this Helps
All the Best
Dave