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From: mjm@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Michael McClennen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: card names
Message-ID: <18600@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 18 Jan 90 18:04:03 GMT
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In article <52879@srcsip.UUCP> leilaj@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Leila Johannesen) writes:
>I can't seem to be able to get the name of a card then have it
>test correctly in an "if" statement.  Does anyone know how to do this?
>
>for example, I wrote:
>
>get the name of this card
>put it into Message
>if it is "myname" then
> beep
>end if

Easily fixed.  Substitute the following for line 1:

     get the short name of this card



That will get you the proper string.

Michael McClennen
Dartmouth College Humanities Computing