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From: oddjob@oz.plymouth.edu (Andrew C. Stoffel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Finding Text
Message-ID: <1991May1.151453.14818@oz.plymouth.edu>
Date: 1 May 91 15:14:53 GMT
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Reply-To: oddjob@oz.plymouth.edu (Andrew C. Stoffel)
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In article <284.2819CAE4@mcws.fidonet.org> Harry.Myhre@p2.f863.n102.z1.fidonet.org (Harry Myhre) writes:
>
>Steven Langlois writes in a message to All on 24 Apr 91
>
>SL> I'm new to HyperTalk so bare with me. Is there a Find Again type 
>SL> of command in hypertalk or does find just always find the first 
>SL> occurance from the current card?
>
>With HC 2.0, yes. Type find "cat" into the message box and press return. HC
>2.0 will find the first occurance of cat in your stack and put a rectangle around
>it. Press return again and it will find the next occurance.
Ok..... (I knew that one......) BUT
how would one do it within a script ????? Do I HAVE to put what I'm
looking for into the msg box along with find and send a return until
there are no more occurances of what I looking for ???

I have a stack of 108 cards (with the possibility(sp?) of MORE) with
eleven fields on each that I want to search & then mark the card for
viewing or printing. I can mark cards with
	mark cards
 etc. and then act on those marked cards but this seems to work ONLY
if I tell it to check one field. This is fine for some things (and I
use it for them). How do I get it to mark EVERY card that contains
something in A field that I am looking for ??

Find doesn't SEEM to work from a script ....

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