Repeat for each line?

[Magnus von Brömsen]

Thanks Jeanne,
for your fast and excellent help!

It works great. So far I have only tried the first one (the field 
contains  max 50 lines). But I will try the others later.

Thanks.
Magnus


On torsdag, april 18, 2002, at 12:16 , Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:

> At 1:06 AM -0700 4/18/2002, Magnus von Brömsen wrote:
>> on addOrder
>>   repeat for each line x in field "articles"
>>     if the foregroundColor of x = 204,0,0 then
>
> The problem here is that when you use this form of the repeat loop, your
> variable "x" contains the actual text of the line. And a variable has no
> foregroundColor as such - it's just the line contents - so no go. It's 
> like
> saying "if the foregroundColor of "foo" is 204,0,0".
>
> Here's one alternative:
>
>   on addOrder
>     repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines of field "articles"
>     -- with this form, "x" is the line number, not the contents
>       if the foregroundColor of line x of field "articles" is "204,0,0"
>       then put line x of field "articles" & return after redLine
>     end repeat
>     put redLine into field "order"
>   end addOrder
>
> That is pretty straightforward - you're checking every line in the 
> field,
> in order - but it is not very efficient. If the field "articles" has a 
> lot
> of lines, more speed may be needed. Here's another way that should be
> faster:
>
>   on addOrder
>     repeat for each line thisLine in the htmlText of field "articles"
>     -- "thisLine" contains the htmlText, and the htmlText contains
>     -- tags for all the formatting, so you can check it for color:
>       if "font color="#CC0000" is in thisLine
>       then put thisLine & return after redLine
>     end repeat
>     set the htmlText of field "order" to redLine
>     -- include the next line if you want to remove formatting from
>     -- the "order" field (formatting is still there because you used
>     -- the htmlText):
>     put field "order" into field "order"
>   end addOrder
>
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