string: finding and marking in custom properties

[J. Landman Gay]

On 7/9/05 12:36 PM, Lars Brehmer wrote:

> I have a find script that looks in the custom properties of the cards  
> in a stack and marks the cards that match;
> 
> do some stuff
> mark cds where (the findIt of me) is among the words of the ansP of  
> this cd
> do some more stuff
> 
> Now this works just fine but for several reasons I'd rather be  looking 
> for a string, not a word or a set of characters, but I can't  get the 
> syntax right.

Try:

mark cds where (the findIt of me) is in the ansP of this cd

> 
> mark cds by finding string (the findIt of me) in the ansP of this cd
> 
> this doesn't work and neither does any variation that I could come up  
> with, same with "mark cds where string "xyz"....  The contents of  these 
> custom props are in uniEncode UTF8.  What am I doing wrong  here?  It 
> seems like it shouldn't be a problem.

The "find" command only works in fields, not in custom properties, so 
you can't use this method.

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