Thread-topic: OSAX to Tokenize Record Field Names from List Items ???
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Hi,
> How might one go about the process of parsing a list, for instance:
>
> {"fSource", "PicName", "fObjStyle", "[Basic Graphics Frame]", "fWidth",
> "12p6", "fHeight", "9p3"}
>
> ... and dynamically build a record, such as:
>
> {fSource:"PicName", fObjStyle:"[Basic Graphics Frame]", fWidth:"12p6",
> fHeight:"9p3"}
>
> ... without having those field names predefined.
>
> In other words, I would like to dynamically tokenize each odd-indexed filed in
> the list and pair it with the following even-indexed value. Is this possible
> with some sort of OSAX?
I have a scripting addition that allows you to manipulate record properties
dynamically called List & Record Tools which makes things like this fairly
easy:
-- This code uses my List & Record Tools scripting addition
--
-- http://www.latenightsw.com/freeware/RecordTools/index.html
--
on makeRecordFromArray(fieldValuePairs)
local propNames, propValues
-- Split fieldValuePairs into two lists: a list of property names
-- and a list of property values...
set propNames to {}
set propValues to {}
repeat with i from 1 to length of fieldValuePairs
if i mod 2 is 1 then -- odd
set end of propNames to item i of fieldValuePairs
else -- even
set end of propValues to item i of fieldValuePairs
end if
end repeat
-- Create the record using List & Record Tools...
return set user property propNames to propValues in {}
end makeRecordFromArray
makeRecordFromArray({"fSource", "PicName", ¬
"fObjStyle", "[Basic Graphics Frame]", ¬
"fWidth", "12p6", ¬
"fHeight", "9p3"})
--> {
-- |fSource|:"PicName",
-- |fObjStyle|:"[Basic Graphics Frame]",
-- |fWidth|:"12p6",
-- |fHeight|:"9p3"
-- }
Cheers
-Mark
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