Re: mark cards by finding x in field y

[DVGlasgow]

In a message dated 8/5/01 3:41:34 PM, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: mark cards by finding x in field y

Would this work:

mark cards by finding string it in field title

Alternatively, unless you need the marking, you could simply use:

find string it in field title

As a final alternative, you might name the cards with the titles, 
which would allow:

go card it

To do the author and first line searches, you could maintain arrays 
which store the card names based on the first line and/or the author. 
Or just revert to the search for those two.

gc


Thanks Geoff.  I thought I might not get a response because it was such basic 
stuff.  I wrestled with your suggestion find string, but settled on find 
whole (not sure there is any actual difference in this case).  The otherwise 
unchanged scripts now work fine.  I still don't know what the problem was.

Your other suggestions I have already tried in the stack, but thanks anyway.  
The cards are all named after the first n characters of the paper abstract.

Yippee.  Off to the lawyers it goes.

David G

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Re: mark cards by finding x in field y

[Geoff Canyon]

   get the selectedtext of field index
   mark cards by finding it in field title
   go first marked card

I'm not sure how mark cards... command works in this instance. The 
standard find might not be what you want: it finds fields where there 
are words that begin with the strings you give it. I don't know why 
that wouldn't work, but still... I would think you'd want find 
string, which finds exactly what you give it.

Would this work:

mark cards by finding string it in field title

Alternatively, unless you need the marking, you could simply use:

find string it in field title

As a final alternative, you might name the cards with the titles, 
which would allow:

go card it

To do the author and first line searches, you could maintain arrays 
which store the card names based on the first line and/or the author. 
Or just revert to the search for those two.

gc

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