Firstly you've casually omitted several paragraphs of AppleScript
required to do the reads and writes.
This may me misleading. The line I wrote does read the file - no
additional paragraphs are required - and it returns the result that
the OP wanted to "get", which I think is pretty fair. Would the OP
have written "I want to make one of the column into a new file",
Greetings Emmanuel,
Here's the line I replied to:
awk '{ FS = " " } ; {print $3}' b.txt > c.txt
so ok, it's only half a canard (demi-duck if you live near Moncton
NB, semi-duck if you're a trucker on Route 66).
doing a "man -k xxx" is much more expedient than wading throught
AppleScript dictionaries.
AppleScript has better dictionaries than it used to have. Now they
may include arbitrary quantities of html, so we can hope they get
better. Users of the latest versions of Smile say they appreciate
that the dictionaries now include examples where needed.
I was not talking about the amount of information displayed. What I
said is if you know what you want to do but not how, "man -k xxx" is
more expedient in many cases. That's because the "standard"
AppleScript facilities available in OS X are scattered across several
applications and osaxen, and one has to open them and scan them
manually. man -k is not the greatest, but there currently is no
search mechanism that will scan sdefs for terminology and
descriptions. So we have to resort to begging on lists like this or
google.
