4-2: Control Flow

See also: Quick Tutorial.

Conditional expressions

if 1 = 2

alert "computer dun broke"

else if "hello" contains "p"

alert "computer dun broke"

else

if true then alert "everything is fine"

else alert "thisisfine.jpg"

alert "You selected" & (if ask for boolean prompt "Yes or no?" then "yes" else "no")

end

Conditional loops

let l be {}

let min be minutes of current date

repeat while (minutes of (let date be current date)) = min

add seconds of date to l

delay 1

end

l

seconds of current date

repeat while that = min

seconds of current date

end

Constant-bounded loops

let choices be {}

repeat 5 times

choose from {"Choice A", "Choice B"}

add that to choices

end

choices

Iterative loops

require app Finder

alert "Your currently connected disks are…"

tell Finder to get name of every disk

repeat for disk name in that

alert disk name

end