Making a list of user input

Question

how can i make a list of user input. for instance, i'm asking the user, how many people played. then i take that number and it asks the user that number of times to type a players name. i then want to make a list of those players. i have the repeat operator working correctly, however, it only gets the name of the laset person i typed. help!

Answer 1

Hi Nana,
You should create an algorithm, because this script will probably get a lot bigger. You might create subroutines to make things easier. Anyway, here's an example of what you want. Say athe team names are a-f, with a playing b, c playing d, etc.
set the_winners to {"a", "d", "e"}
set player_list to {"joe", "sally"}
set the_picks to {{"a", "d", "f"}, {"b", "c", "f"}}
set i to 0
set n to count player_list
set winning_players to {}
set high_score to 0
repeat
set i to i + 1
set player_picks to item i of the_picks
set c to 0
repeat with this_pick in player_picks
if (contents of this_pick) is in the_winners then set c to c + 1
end repeat
if c > high_score then
set high_score to c
set winning_players to {}
set end of winning_players to (item i of player_list)
else if c = high_score then
set end of winning_players to (item i of player_list)
end if
if i = n then exit repeat
end repeat
{winning_players, high_score}
About Excel, you could easily get a listing. I'm using Excel X which might not work (scipting wise) with Excel 2004, so that part you can get from somebody else or try it yourself.
gl,