Can't seem to print the script of a card
Sarah Reichelt
sarah.reichelt at gmail.com
Sat Jan 16 21:51:16 EST 2010
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Len Morgan <len-morgan at crcom.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to write a recursive stack printer and I'm having trouble with
> "unnamed" cards (i.e., cards that have the default name of "card id 1002").
>
> I use the following:
>
> on printCards pStack
> put the cardNames of stack pStack into theCards
>
> repeat for each line c of theCards
> put the script of card c of stack pStack into theScript
> ...
> end repeat
> end printCards
>
> I get an error saying "Can't find card" every time I hit a card that has
> never been named. Is this not possible or am I doing something wrong?
The problem is that the default description for an un-named card
includes the word "card".
So you are effectively telling the script to print "card card id
1002", which does not exist.
You might be better using the cardIDs instead of the cardNames to
populate the original list.
Cheers,
Sarah
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