Feedback: comparing content of two fields

[Ronald Zellner]

OK, slight modification of Peter's  script:

on mouseUp
   local allEntries, ruralEntries, theStart
   put the seconds into theStart   -- used to check the timing
    put fld "All" into allEntries
    put fld "Rural" into ruralEntries
    set the itemDelimiter to tab
    repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines in allEntries -- there are 1247 lines
          if cr & (item 1 of line x of allEntries) & tab is in  ruralEntries then
                   put "Rural" into item 4 of line x of field "All"
                   set the textColor of line x of field "All" to "red"
                  next repeat    -- I had "end repeat" before.
             else
                   put "-" into item 4 of line x of field "All"
          end if
    end repeat
   put the seconds - theStart & return after field "TheTime"  -- get elapsed time
end mouseUp

This script checks the variable and alters the field content & line color.

This took 432 seconds to complete.

Then I changed it to alter the contents of the variable. 
Had to remove the color change as you can't set that attribute- as Michael predicted.

    put "Rural" into item 4 of line x of allEntries

And then put the variable into the field at the end:

    put allEntries into field "All"


This took 1 second to complete. 

 I'll write a separate script to change the line color in the field.

Thanks all.