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Article #16149Re: "Bolding" all words before hyphen in classifieds...advice please?
From: Shane_Stanley
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:06
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:06
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On 17/10/03 5:21 PM +1000, Eelko Heuvelmans, member@adobeforums.com, wrote: > I'm not very used with VB > I understand programming in general and had some courses in other languages. > These days i'm concentrating on Vb and scripts. > > But i never ran into a Whose Clause! > I have seen the script Jay putted here. It seems to me it's some kind of aa > loop condition. > Can it be used in vb and why are you guys so happy about it? > > I'm just wondering :) It's AppleScript only. The more formal name is a filtered reference, and you use it instead of iteration to find objects whose property or properties match certain criteria. So you might say something like 'every word of story 1 whose contents contains "script"' or or 'every text frame of page 1 whose fill color is color "A color"'. -- Shane Stanley, sstanley@myriad-com.com.au
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