Language Guide

CHAPTER 7
Control Statements
Repeat Statements 199
Repeat While 7
The Repeat While form of the Repeat statement repeats a group of statements as
long as a particular condition, specified in a Boolean expression, is met.
SYNTAX
repeat while Boolean
[ statement ]...
end [ repeat ]
where
Boolean is an expression whose value is true or false. The statements in the
loop are repeated until Boolean becomes false. If Boolean is false when
entering the loop, the statements in the loop are not executed.
statement is any AppleScript statement.
EXAMPLE
The following example numbers the paragraphs of a document with the Repeat
While form of the Repeat statement.
tell document "List"
set numParagraphs to (count paragraphs)
set paragraphNum to 1
repeat while paragraphNum  numParagraphs
set paragraph paragraphNum to (paragraphNum as string) & " " 
& paragraph paragraphNum
set paragraphNum to paragraphNum + 1
end repeat
end tell