Handling change in textstyle of field lines

[glenn9]

Hi everyone,

I would like to conditionally change the textstyle of lines in a field based on whether a card exists in a substack

I've put together this code

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   repeat for each line x in  field 1
      If exists(card x of stack"SubStack") then
         set the textstyle ["underline"] of line x of field 1 to true
      else
         set the textstyle ["underline"] of line x of field 1 to false
      end if
   end repeat
   

but it throws the following error message: 'chunk: error in range start expression' for the line:

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set the textstyle ["underline"] of line x field 1 to true

Grateful for any hints or tips on where I'm going wrong with this code?

Many thanks,

Kind regards,

Glenn

[jmburnod]

Hi Glen,
You may use:

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set the textstyle of line 3 of fld "myFld" to "underline"

Best regards
Jean-Marc

[glenn9]

Hi Glen,
You may use:

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set the textstyle of line 3 of fld "myFld" to "underline"

Best regards
Jean-Marc

Hi Jean-Marc,

Thanks for responding so quickly. Just tried it out and it certainly underlines line 3 but doesn't take account of the condition, if the card exists in the substack.

If I change your code slightly replacing line 3 with line x

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set the textstyle of line x of fld "myFld" to "underline"

I get the same error as before?

Kind regards,

Glenn

[Klaus]

Hi Glenn,

what is in field 1?

Hint:
"repeat for each line x" does NOT count the lines, so the linenumber is NOT in X, but instead the CONTENT of that line!
Maybe that is the problem? Sounds like...

If yes, you need to supply and manage your own counter:

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...
put 1 into tCounter
 repeat for each line x in  field 1
      If exists(card x of stack"SubStack") then
         set the textstyle ["underline"] of line tCounter of field 1 to true
      else
         set the textstyle ["underline"] of line tCounter of field 1 to false
      end if
      add 1 to tCounter
   end repeat
...

That is the reason why "repeat for EACH" is so much faster that "repeat with..."
LC does not need to count the lines, it just passes the content of EACH line.

Best

Klaus

[glenn9]

Hi Klaus,

brilliant, it works perfectly now. Thank you.

Field 1 contains a list of strings.

I hadn't appreciated that the 'for each' command passed Content, although I should have noticed this, as I was asking x to pass both content (in terms of the card name) and also further on, a line number at the same time!

Apologies for the muddled thinking.

Thank you again for your help.

Kind regards,

Glenn