I am trying to get a loop to run through a list of items, testing each item and then I want the loop to finish either when the loop runs out of items or if the internal test proves true.
I assume there are 2 ways I could do this… but I don’t know how to do either in Apple script.
The following art my bastardized solutions that obviously don’t work because I don’t know the correct syntax. Can somebody help me solve them?
The following uses multiple loop criteria to maintain the loop. If the test comes back as true it will terminate the loop
tell application "Finder"
set workingFolder to choose folder
set folderItemList to items of workingFolder as alias list
set textMatch to false
repeat with currentFolderItem in folderItemList or until textMatch is true
if kind of currentFolderItem is "Folder" then
try
find text "^[a-zA-Z]{2}_\\d+" in (displayed name of currentFolderItem) as string with regexp
set textMatch to true
end try
end if
end repeat
end tell
The following uses some sort of loop terminator… I dont know if Applescript has this sort of function
tell application "Finder"
set workingFolder to choose folder
set folderItemList to items of workingFolder as alias list
repeat with currentFolderItem in folderItemList
if kind of currentFolderItem is "Folder" then
try
find text "^[a-zA-Z]{2}_\\d+" in (displayed name of currentFolderItem) as string with regexp
terminate repeat
end try
end if
end repeat
end tell