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From: rieman@boulder.Colorado.EDU (John Rieman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: card names
Message-ID: <15455@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 8 Jan 90 23:16:57 GMT
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In article <52879@srcsip.UUCP> leilaj@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Leila Johannesen) writes:
>... I wrote:
>
>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.  

You're gonna kick yourself, since you've almost found the solution already.
Hypercard doesn't think 
   "myname" 
is a match for
   card "myname" 
because they are different strings!  That is, the message shows exactly the
string that is currently in "it."  To make the script work, either use:

     get the short name of this card

which will return 'myname' (no quotes at all) instead of 'card "myname"'; or 
else (to be perverse), write the test as:

     if it is "card" && quote & "myname" & quote then
       beep
     end if

-john
rieman@boulder.colorado.edu
U. of Colorado