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From: fr0c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Frank A. Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Importing Text ?????
Message-ID: <4bZ8Mei00WBN821VtW@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 91 16:58:18 GMT
Organization: Hunt Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Maybe someone can figure this one out. 

I'm importing text from a Microsoft Word document saved as text. It has
about 3000 names, and data on the names, with tabs between each item.  I
have only done importing of text to HyperCard as a test before, so I
stopped at about 1200 names to see if all the information was be
transfered into the right fields (there are 12 fields), everything was
fine.  So I opened the Word document and remove the names that had been
transfered then tried to import the rest.  HyperCard begins to import
the very 1st name again.

I have tried,

1.  re-saving the Word document, 
2.  re-named it,
3.  made a copy of the stack removed all the name already imported, 

and it still starts importing the 1st name again.

How can it import something that is not there ????????
What am I missing ?

The import script I am using is below.

on mouseUp
  Ask "Which file do you wish to import?" with "XYZportraits"
  if it is empty then exit mouseUp
  put it into fileName
  open file fileName
  go to last card
  repeat forever
    doMenu "New Card"
    read from file fileName until return
    if it is empty then
      go to first card
      close file fileName
      exit mouseUp
    else put tab into last char of it
    repeat with x=1 to the number of fields
      put char 1 to offset (tab,it) of it into field x
      delete last char of field x
      delete  char 1 to offset (tab,it) of it
    end repeat
  end repeat
end mouseUp