Finding among column1 (wordchunk 1) of text file ?

[shawnblc]

I'm trying to find just the text in column 1 of the text file, having difficulty. I've tried to use word 1, segment,. Can you give me some hints on the how to process this?

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put fld "fld1" into tFile1
put URL "http://domain.com/1.text" into tFile
if tFile1 is among the words of tFile then
....

My text file looks like this (set itemdel as TAB)

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sometext here		somemoretext		somemore text is here

[Klaus]

Hi Shawn,

you should try this:

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...
put URL "http://domain.com/1.text" into tFile
if tFile contains tFile1 then
...

But that will also be true if tFile1 may be found in column 2 or 3!
I would use a repeat loop:

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set itemdel to TAB
repeat for each line tLine in tFile
  if item 1 of tLine = tFile1 then
    ## Found it, do something
   end if
end repeat
...

Best

Klaus

[shawnblc]

I keep getting no, no matter what. Racking my brain.

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on mouseUp
   put fld "fld1" into tLine
   
   set itemDel to TAB
   put URL "http://*********.on-rev.com/testing123.txt" into tFile
   --answer tFile - shows the file
   repeat for each line tLine in tFile
      if item 1 of tLine = tFile then
         answer "Yes" else
      answer "No"
      end if
   end repeat
end mouseUp

[dunbarx]

Hi.

You are comparing the first item in each line with the entire contents of tFile, the result of the URL call. That cannot be right.

Craig

[Klaus]

That is not what I wrote!
I used your variables -> tFile and tFile1 as in your posting, so please look again!

This will work as in my fist proposal:

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on mouseUp
 ## Please look up REPEAT FOR EACH in the dictionary
 #########  put fld "fld1" into tLine
 
  ##!!!!!!!
  put fld "fld1" into tFile1
  ## !!!!!!
   
   set itemDel to TAB
   put URL "http://*********.on-rev.com/testing123.txt" into tFile
   repeat for each line tLine in tFile
      if item 1 of tLine = tFile1 then
         answer "Yes" 
         
         ## Here is the time to:
         exit repeat
      else
        answer "No"
      end if
   end repeat
end mouseUp