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From: Dave Saunders
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:02

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What is the best way to detect that a search has failed to find anything?

I've been using:

set find preferences to nothing
set change preferences to nothing
repeat
 set myResult to search myStory for "^p^p" replacing with "^p"
 try
  get myResult
 on error
  exit repeat
 end try
end repeat

But I'm sometime crashing ID 2.0.2 using this technique (although I can't reproduce it in trivial documents).

The problem is that you can't test myResult because it becomes undefined if nothing is found.

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