The selectedObjects - is it a container or not?

[J. Landman Gay]

> I  have a bit of code that says in part:
>
>     if the selectedObjects is not empty then
>       repeat with i = 1 to the number of lines of the selectedObjects
>       …
>
> This results in an error “source is not a container”.
>
> OTOH, if I change the second line to
>
>      repeat with i = 1 to the number of lines of (the selectedObjects0
>
> the code works as expected.


The selectedObjects is a function that returns a text list. It isn't a 
container. Adding parentheses forces the engine to evaluate the function 
and use its return value, which does have lines in it.

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