populating a var instead of directly a field don't working ???

[Andre.Bisseret]

Le 27 janv. 09 à 10:39, SparkOut a écrit :

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>
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> Sarah Reichelt-2 wrote:
>>
>>> In a stack I have two fields :
>>>
>>> One, « towns » is a list of towns where when a line is clisked, I  
>>> put the
>>> name of the town in « tthisTown »
>>>
>>> The other field « statClients», is a big list each line of which  
>>> includes
>>> a
>>> number of items separated with tab ; the first item being the town.
>>>
>>> I wish to get in a third field, say « results », only the lines
>>> concerning
>>> the clicked town.
>>
>> How about using the filter command?
>>
>> ON mouseUp
>>   local tThisTown, tStatClients
>>   lock screen
>>   put value(the selectedLine) into tThisTown
>>   put fld "statClients" into tStatClients
>>   filter tStatClient with "*" & tThisTown & "*"
>>   put tStatClient into fld "results"
>> END mouseUp
>>
>> The *'s at the start & end of the filter string mean that your town
>> can occur anywhere in the line, not just at the beginning or end.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sarah
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>> I was just going to post a filter command might be the most useful  
>> here,
>> but just for reference, your results field was not being populated  
>> because
>> you were using an "exit mouse up" to end the repeat loop when the  
>> find
>> result was "not found". Therefore your list was being built up line  
>> by
>> line with each find, but then the handler was exited after the last  
>> one,
>> without being able to do anything with the results.
> In those circumstances a REPEAT UNTIL (result is "not found") or  
> REPEAT
> WHILE (result <> "not found) type structure would be better. (You  
> could also
> use "exit repeat" in the if statement, rather than "exit mouseup"  
> but a
> conditional loop is probably neater.)

Ooops ! YES ! very happy to eventually understand my mistake ;-))
Of course, you are right, exit repeat, not mouseUp.!

Anyway, I think I shall adopt the filter command

Thanks a lot for your attention and your revision

Best regards from Grenoble
André


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