Too Many Twos
Submitted by BruceCyr on Fri, 02/22/2008 - 14:51.
Like everyone who writes scripts, I have a command like "[Arrow_direction] 1_500". Recently I've been working on a project where I frequently have to pick the 22nd item on a list.* That's when I discovered that "22" and "32" aren't being interpreted as numbers but rather as text. Apparently 42 and higher is not that much of a problem, although sometimes when I say one of these higher *2's, I can see the results box start to spell the number out as text. But then, as DNS apparently encounters my global command, you can see it re-interpret and transcribe what I said as a number!
I'm not really asking a question, although if you know enough about how DNS works to suggest a solution (as opposed to a workaround, which even I can figure out) then feel free to astound us all 
Bruce
*Unfortunately it's one of those Java-based applications where a more direct or general script solution doesn't seem feasible 
PS: As I was writing this I fantasized that it might be neat to have a way to slow down the results box so that you can see what it's doing in detail -- but since this is bass ackwards of what a dictator normally desires, it's just one of those fantasies that are scarcely worth mentioning.
one idea
Hold down the Control key when you say "down 22". Turns out I have the same problem, but never knew it.
Another option might be to rewrite your command, using the old written/spoken form of lists, like
21\twenty one
22\twenty two
and so on.
But who has time to do that?
Written/spoken forms may be
Written/spoken forms may be the thing to do when you don't have so many values -- I use scaling beyond 100, but that's still a lot of work. Control key and Command mode don't work -- the commands aren't recognized then!