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Re: Textedit and word counting


Dan, There's no need to paste them into a new document, and there's no need to twiddle the TIDs, just copy to the clipboard and run

  display dialog("Words: " & (count words of (the clipboard)) )

Unfortunately, that doesn't answer the question as to why you'd start getting the same answer after a while...

 - B.Johnson (fellow Seattleite)


On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, email@hidden wrote:

I am trying to use a simple little Textedit script to count the number of
words in text documents so they can be posted. This script works most of
the time but it will eventually start to return the same number. I am not
sure how to clear the memory so it will generate the right number. The way
it is being used is to copy the content out of an email, into a text
document, run the script and repeat.  Can anyone see why this eventually
gets clogged up?


set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
tell application "TextEdit" to count words of document 1's text
display dialog "Number of words is " & result



Dan Burbank
Iridio - An R.R. Donnelley Company
5050 First Avenue S.
Seattle, WA 98134
t 206.826.3352
c 206.718.8655
www.iridio.com

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