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From: aisl@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Lawrence Landry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: How do I get HyperCard to return the value of a line?
Message-ID: <1946@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 89 13:54:14 GMT
References: <1195@atux01.UUCP>
Reply-To: aisl@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Lawrence Landry)
Organization: University of Rochester
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In article <1195@atux01.UUCP> jlc@atux01.UUCP (J. Collymore) writes:
>Is there any way in HyperCard (HC) 1.2.1 that I can have a "find" locate
>something on a specified field, return some value for the line that the
>searched for object resides on in that field, and then use the "put" command
>to clear out the found object on the designated line?
>

on delFindLine findText
  find findText
  if the result is not "No match" then -- or whatever HC returns on no match
    get the foundLine
    put it              -- show you what was found
    do "delete" && it   -- delete the line that was found
  end if
end delFindLine

Larry Landry
University of Rochester