Re: 'change'
Re: 'change'
- Subject: Re: 'change'
- From: email@hidden (Michael Sullivan)
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:11:35 -0500
- Organization: Business Card Express of Connecticut
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I've recently reinstalled my OS, but in the process, I seemed to have lost
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one of my Applescript Additions. Unfortunately, I have no idea what I'm
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missing.
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The Applescript command that no longer triggers is:
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change x into y in z
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as in:
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set theAuthor to (change "By " into "" in theAuthor)
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I'm pretty sure I remember having added an Applescript addition to get
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this search and replace feature.
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(doesn't it strike others as odd that Apple didn't include even base text
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functions like this in a standard library?!?)
In this case no, because it can be implemented quite easily with TIDs
-- begin script
on searchReplace(theText, searchString, replaceString)
set oldTIDs to text item delimiters
set text item delimiters to searchString
set newText to theText as list
set text item delimiters to {replaceString}
return newText as string
end searchReplace
-- end script
I can't even take credit for this one because I've seen it or something
essentially similar in about a half dozen scripts posted here.
The one thing I can't figure out how to do with TIDs is to break things
into words for processing but *remembering* what kind of whitespace
delimited them. I keep thinking I'll come up with a clever trick but
it's just not happening.
Michael
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Michael Sullivan email@hidden
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