I answered your question on Stackoverflow. -- Best regards,
Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Use Color Converter to convert CMYK, RGB, RAL, XYZ, H.Lab and other colour spaces. http://www.color-converter.com We have time for new software development projects. Contact me for a quote. On 14 jul 2013, at 17:00, Keith Clarke wrote: > Hi folks, > I've posted this question to Stack Overflow - > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17639968/livecode-find-list-items-within-a-table-field > - but it seems very quiet over there on LiveCode matters, so apologies for t > the cross-posting. > > I'm trying to use LiveCode to clean up some contact data. I have two lists: > SourceList: a list of tab-delimited contact records in a LiveCode table > field; > FlagList: a list of strings, such as 'test' that I want to check for > within the SourceList. > Ideally, I want to highlight 'hits' in both the FlagList rows and the > matching characters in the items in the rows of the SourceList, but I'm > struggling with errors on my first pass. > > On loading the SourceList from file, I'm trying to set the colour of any > FlagList field rows that are found in the SourceList. > > Here's the script on the 'Load SourceList' button... > > on mouseUp > answer file "Select text file to Clean" with type "txt" > if it <> "" then > put empty into field "SourceList" > put it into field "SourceFile" > put it into theFilePath > put URL ("file:" & theFilePath) into field "SourceList" > > repeat for each line f in field "FlagList" > > repeat for each line l in field "SourceList" > > repeat for each item i in l > if i contains f then set the foregroundColor of f to "red" > end repeat > > end repeat > > end repeat > > else > --no file was selected, or cancel was pressed > beep > end if > end mouseUp > > I think I'm making a basic error, so grateful for any guidance. > Best, > Keith.. > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
