Doubt on LIST

Question

Hi,
I'm new to applescript. I have a doubt regarding list.
in my script i get number of  items  as list. say: {"hello","hello1","hello2","hello3".............. "hello50"}
i want to store list items from "hello3" to hello10 in another list,  but the item position might change with each run. can we use item name?
set eg to item "hello3" thru hello10"

Answer 1

As tw says, you can't do this directly, but it's not hard to workaround. A simple handler to seach the list for the target item should suffice, like this (note: there's no error checking in this example, so you'd need to decide how to handle cases where the expected item doesn't appear):
set theList to {"hello1", "hello2", "hello3", "hello4", "hello5", "hello6", "hello7", "hello8", "hello9"}
set s to findInList("hello3", theList)
set en to findInList("hello7", theList)
set subList to items s through en of theList
on findInList(theItem2Find, theList)
          repeat with i from 1 to count (theList)
                    if item i of theList = theItem2Find then return i
          end repeat
          return 0
end findInList
The concept is pretty simple - pass in an item to search for in a given list and the findInList() handler walks through the list until it finds a matching item, at which point it returns the index. If the value isn't found it returns 0, but you can change this behavior. Once you've found the two indexes it's easy to select the sub-list.