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From: Scot.Kamins@f555.n125.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Scot Kamins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: re: if-statement problem(?)
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Date: 8 Oct 88 17:08:09 GMT
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The solution to your problem is to put the field reference within parentheses:
 
    if (field 1 of cd i) contains "RTFM" then
 
Hypertalk gets confused when you give it an expression to evaluate as a field address if that expression is anyplace but at the end of a 
line. So if the line were something like
     else put foo into field 1 of cd 1
it would have no problem with it.
The solution I suggest will work every time.


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