On 8/6/05 19:12, "doug rogers" <email@hidden> wrote:
> I have a Search and Replace handler from
> <http://bbs.applescript.net/viewtopic.php?id=11449> that I should be
> able to use. I want to replace multiple paragraph returns in a variable
> with just a single return. To set the value of the search and replace
> string, I have copied them out of the original text window. The handle
> returns the same text I load into the variable, and Hog Bay Notebook
> returns the error that it can't continue SearchReplaceText.
Without OSAXen:
set theText to "this is some text
with paragraphs
and with
double paragraphs
as
well
"
do shell script "echo " & quoted form of theText & "|tr -s " & ¬
quoted form of (return & return)
If 'thetext' gets to be longer than about 64k you will have to write it to a
disk file first then pass that file through the 'tr' filter
--
Barry
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