Using Find Command with Items....?

[jpatten]

Hi All...

I'm trying to find data in large field and sort it out by breaking it down into items and then searching each item in a repeat. Here's what I have:

on mouseUp
set the itemDel to "@"
put cd fld "grades" into studentData
put the number of items of studetData into dataInput
put cd fld "student" into targetStudent --the find field
put 1 into X
repeat for dataInput
put item X of studentData into TargetItem
find whole targetStudent in TargetItem
put the result into TextWasFound
if TextWasFound is "" then
put targetItem & Return after StudentReport
add 1 to x
else
add 1 to x
end if
end repeat
Answer studentReport
set the itemDel to ","
end mouseUp

My find result is always "not found." ???

Does anyone see something wrong with this?

Thank you!

[jpatten]

I think i figured it out... find only works with fields, not variables.