Bill Steele wrote on Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:15:53 +0000: >set keywords to {"foo","bar","Fred"} >set thePieces to splittext bigFile using "whatever" >repeat with onePiece in thePieces > repeat with oneWord in keywords > if onePiece contains oneWord > (do some stuff with it) > end if > end repeat >end repeat > >This worked fine until I upgraded to Mountain Lion, and then it started to >hang up about halfway through --at different places at different times, >with the same file. > >To find out what was happening I put in some display dialogs,and that fixed >it. Replaced the dialogs with one-second delays,and that works too. Seems >Applescript Editor needs to stop and think about some things, or maybe >clean out some memory when it's doing arrays. > >Any ideas what's happening? Sounds like a synchronisation problem. Does "some stuff" include any GUI scripting or clipboard work? NG