How do I use pick for multiple instances?

Does anyone fully understand "pick" and "for each"

Just an example: 10 instances of text1, 5 of them have text1.var=1 and 5 have text1.var=2

"pick all" does just that, easy enough.

"pick by comparison" picks 1 instance based on criteria

The question I have is: Other than using "pick all" AND "pick by comparison" is there a way to select all 5 of the text1.var=1 ?

One would think "for each" with "pick by comparison", or "for each" and "compare 2 values", or "pick all" and "pick by comparison" would work, but only the latter will select all 5 of the text1.var=1.

Pick all is actually used to reset the "selected object list" (SOL) when it is currently filtered and you wish to select through all instances again.

For each is used when you want to do things relative to a single instance at a time.

Both of which is not what you are after.

Selecting the text1 instances where var = 1 is as simple as that :

Well I'll be. Thanks for the help. Not sure I how I missed this little nugget.

Thank you again, I've been complicating the hell out of this process for years.

It shouldn't trigger only for the last instance. I'm curious to see your implementation if you can reproduce your observed behavior in a simple c3p file.