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From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: card names
Summary: use "short name"
Message-ID: <37685@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 8 Jan 90 22:47:28 GMT
References: <52879@srcsip.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <52879@srcsip.UUCP> leilaj@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Leila Johannesen)
writes:
>
>get the name of this card
>put it into Message
>if it is "myname" then
> beep
>end if
>
>--it writes the card name into Message (with the word 'card' in front
>of it) but doesn't think "myname" and it match.  

"The name of this card" returns an expression of the form
  card "foobar"
which of course isn't identical to "foobar".  To get just the name of
a card, without surrounding quotes and the word "card" in front, use
"the short name of this card".
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