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I am building a simple app to play different videos files based on the time of day (that information is held in a MySQL database). I need to have the app check for what movie it should play as soon as it finishes playing the current video. I have only one stack and one card, no controls other than t...

I have a text file (csv) with schedules in it, and I need to search a specific column for a specific word. I need to print the entire line in which the string is found. If I were doing this bash (what I'm most comfortable with), I would use awk, and it would look something like this: awk -F, '$3 ~ /...

dunbarx wrote:Each iteration creates a new custom name:

periodOffset1
periodOffset3
periodOffset3

etc.

Craig Newman

oh, I missed the first line. Thanks!

This also works: ... repeat with i = 1 to 7 put "periodoffset" & i into tCPName set the tCPName of this stack to wordoffset("Period", line 1 of allschedules, the tCPName of this stack) end repeat ... But wouldn't this just change the value of tCPName every time the repeat iterates? Or does set appe...

dunbarx wrote: Oh, and "period" is not a constant in LC. You have to use ".", period.

Thanks for your info! I actually am looking for the string "Period" rather than a literal "."

Since posting earlier I decided to ditch this idea and store this info in an external file. Any opinions on which way is better?

I'm writing a program to check a student's schedule, based on the output of our student management software. I don't want to depend on an external file to read this information every time, so I am planning on doing the launcher-mainstack combo when I create my standalone app so that I can save the s...