Language Guide

CHAPTER 7

Control Statements

216 Considering and Ignoring Statements

ignoring punctuation

if "this !,:book" = "this book" then

(* additional statements *)

end if

end ignoring

NOTES

The case, white space, diacriticals, hyphens, expansion, and

punctuation considerations apply only to comparisons performed by

AppleScript. Comparisons are performed by AppleScript if the ﬁrst operand

in the comparison is a value in a script; if the ﬁrst operand is a reference

to an application or system object, the comparison is performed by the

application or operating system.

In contrast, the application responses consideration applies only to

application commands. AppleScript commands, scripting additions, and

AppleScript expressions are not affected.

As with all other control statements, you can nest Considering and Ignoring

statements. If the same attribute appears in both an outer and inner statement,

the attribute speciﬁed in the inner statement takes precedence. For example, in

the following statement, the ﬁrst comparison is true, because case attribute is

ignored (as speciﬁed in the Ignoring statement), while the second comparison

is false, because the case attribute is once again considered (as speciﬁed in

the inner Considering statement).

ignoring case and punctuation

if "This" = "this" then beep 1 --true

considering case

if "This" = "this" then beep 2 --false

end considering

When attributes in an inner Considering or Ignoring statement are different

from those in outer statements, they are added to the attributes to be

considered and ignored. For example, in the following statement, the

ﬁrst comparison is false, because only case is ignored, while the second

comparison is true, because both case and white space are ignored.