Go cd 500

[Ray Horsley]

Mark - Unfortunately our users sometimes insist on naming things numbers, but hey, that repeat loop idea is a good one.  Thanks!

On Dec 20, 2011, at 7:46 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:

> Hi Ray,
> 
> You should not use numbers for card names. If you have to use a number, add character, e.g. x500.
> 
> To temporarily work around this problem, you can use a repeat loop that gets the id and name of each card:
> 
> repeat with x = 1 to number of cards
>  if the name of cd x is "500" then
>    put the id of cd x into myID
>    exit repeat
>  end if
> end repeat
> 
> --
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> 
> Mark Schonewille
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> On 21 dec 2011, at 03:24, Ray Horsley wrote:
> 
>> Here's a relatively basic one but still perplexing.  If card 2 in a stack of 2 cards is named a number, 500 for example, how can you go to it in a script if you only have the card's name?
> 
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