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From: n_hays@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Wanted: "Find Next"
Message-ID: <1990Nov20.155800.2630@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au>
Date: 20 Nov 90 07:57:59 GMT
Organization: University of Western Australia
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I've been generally pleased with Hypercard 2 (my thanks to the team)
in spite of the fact that half my scripts died with its introduction.
One thing which I find a particular nuiscance, however, is the change 
to the way HC handles "finds".
I have a simple script designed to extract a copy of any line 
containing a particular word.
It runs along the lines of:
 
Put "foo" into ThingToFind
repeat until cooked
  find string ThingToFind
  do stuff with it
end repeat
 
The problem is that HC 1.x could always be relied upon to find the
NEXT example of ThingToFind on any given card. HC 2 always returns
to the first example. Moving to the next card is no good since there
may be two or more valid finds on the same card. Testing for the
"lastfound" works unless there are two or more examples on the
same card. It seems that I have to keep a track of some
arbitrary number of previously found examples and test for them
each time. This is kludgy in the extreme and slows things down a lot,
since HC has to find each example at least twice.
Am I missing something obvious here?
It seems to me that HC desperately needs a built in "Find Next"
command.
 
Neale Hays
 
ps. My thanks to Jim Taylor for mailing me the stack I wanted. 
It is much appreciated.
 
 
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