On 04.04.2011, at 13:55, William F. Maddock wrote:
> Upon reading the macro I see that you do have a find command in there, but your "textfound" section does not relate back to that find command. Instead it just reads the selected text again.
Thanks a lot, your observation opened my eyes. Now it seems I need a command to deselect the original selected text in case nothing was found, isn’t it. :-)
Ţorvarđur
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> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ţorvarđur Davíđsson <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Apr 4, 2011 6:43 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Was something found, yes or no?
>>
>> Hello Bill,
>>
>> On 04.04.2011, at 04:00, you wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'm not a coder, so maybe I'm missing something, but, where did you actually tell it to perform the search? I'm not seeing it above.
>>>
>>
>> You are right, you did not see it because it is irrelevant for the question. A search is made within the macro and this search returns a certain value (found or not found). If something is found then a command X should be executed. If nothing is found then a command Y should be executed. Therefore I need to know whether something was found or not.
>>
>> The purpose of the whole macro is to include headlines written in bold in the Navigator pane so you can easily jump from one headline to another.
>>
>> Imagine you download a formatted text document from the web. Many look like this:
>>
>> This is a bold line
>>
>> Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text.
>> Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text.
>>
>> Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text.
>> Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text.
>>
>> This is a bold line
>>
>> Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text.
>> Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text.
>>
>>
>> All you have to do now is to select the headlines (i.e. all the bold lines) and execute the menu command “Level 1” [Insert > Table of Contents > Include in TOC > Level 1].
>>
>> Here is the whole macro:
>>
>>
>> Show Navigator
>> # There may be some headlines you don’t want to include such as the title of the document. If you forget to select text you’ll get an alert …
>> $textExpression = Read Selection
>> if $textExpression == ''
>> prompt "You need to select some text."
>> exit
>> End
>>
>> Find All '(AnyCharacter)(1+)(Return)', ‘esau’
>> # This will find all bold lines in the selection you have made
>>
>> # Now begins the part where I need to know whether something was found or not
>>
>> $textFound = Read Selection
>> if $textFound == ‘’
>> prompt “No bold lines found.”
>> # if nothing was found the macro stops
>> exit
>> End
>>
>> # Otherwise insert the bold lines into the Navigator
>>
>> Level 1
>>
>> # END OF MACRO
>>
>>
>> I’ll now take a close look at the suggestion made by Philip Spaelti, so I’ll be back again.
>>
>>
>> Ţorvarđur
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>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Ţorvarđur Davíđsson <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Apr 3, 2011 6:27 PM
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Subject: Was something found, yes or no?
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I make a search in a macro and need to know whether something was found or not. How can I do that?
>>>>
>>>> This tells me whether some text is selected in the document
>>>>
>>>> $textExpression = Read Selection
>>>> if $textExpression == ''
>>>> prompt "You need to select some text."
>>>> exit
>>>> End
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It works fine, so why does *this* not work?
>>>>
>>>> $textFound = Read Selection
>>>> if $textFound == ''
>>>> prompt "Nothing found."
>>>> exit
>>>> End
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have also tried
>>>>
>>>> if $textFound >1
>>>> or
>>>> if $textFound >0
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> but that does not make any difference.
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