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Paul Berkowitz wrote: Won't bother replying to all of this post as I had my fill of vanilla AS algorithms long ago, and it's one of the reasons I eventually moved to another language. Re. the last bit though: > Maybe someone even knows another list osax that does > it? (I've checked has's TextCommands too.) TextCommands, as the name implies, supplies commands for processing text. :) If you wanted you could easily implement a ListCommands FBA using the same sfba framework. For example, the implementation for a 'find item' command would be: from aemreceive.sfba import * def finditem(itm, lst): try: return lst.index(itm) + 1 except ValueError: # item not in list raise EventHandlerError(-1728) installeventhandler( finditem, 'LiCoFind', ('----', 'itm', kAE.typeWildCard) ('In ', 'lst', kAE.typeAEList) ) starteventloop() Add an sdef and a setup script, then build as a standalone application with a user-installed Python framework. There's a tutorial included in the py-appscript documentation. That said, OSAXen and FBAs aren't ideal for list and record processing as all data must be packed into Apple events in order to be passed to them. This limits their usefulness since 1. all data is copied, so if your list contains sub-lists/records then those will be duplicated too (which is not always what you want), and 2. not all data is copyable (references to other applications can't be copied at all, and copying script objects is almost always a disaster). Packing large lists was also impossibly slow in Jaguar and earlier, though that's not such an issue nowadays since most Mac users will be running Panther or later. But you pays your money and takes your choice. HTH has -- http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/ http://appscript.sourceforge.net http://rb-appscript.rubyforge.org