Using Lists

Hi!

The names of trainers and jockeys often contain their initials, not only surnames. See an example below:



Your trigger is not working, because you only specified surnames.

The correct condition would be:

Selection's Jockey's Name is in list "Masayuki Abe", "Name2", "Name3"
and Selection's Trigger Expression "silk_trainer" is in list "Scott Cooper", "Name2", "Name3"

Note how you also need to take silk_trainer in double quotes, because this variable is also a text variable.

It is a much better idea to just put them in text files (one name on each line, in double quotes) and use these conditions:

Selection's Trigger Expression "silk_jockey" is in file {path to file 1}
and Selection's Trigger Expression "silk_trainer" is in file {path to file 2}

If you want to look for surnames only, i.e. parts of their full names, you can use:

Selection'sTrigger ExpressionFIND("Abe", "silk_jockey")is greater than0
ORSelection'sTrigger ExpressionFIND("Yadi", "silk_jockey")is greater than0
AND
Selection'sTrigger ExpressionFIND("Cooper", "silk_trainer")is greater than0
ORSelection'sTrigger ExpressionFIND("Bailey", "silk_trainer")is greater than0


See the attached triggers.