Re: Changed definition of word? No dashes?
Re: Changed definition of word? No dashes?
- Subject: Re: Changed definition of word? No dashes?
- From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 15:43:08 +0000
Harald E Brandt wrote on Fri, 9 Feb 2001 22:23:25 +0100:
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+--> Jolly Roger wrote 01-02-08:
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>One thing you might want to look into doing as a work-around is use
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>AppleScript's text item delimiters to parse text items:
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>set saveDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
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>set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {" "}
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>log item 5 of (text items of "bla bla -435,00 ")
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>set AppleScript's text item delimiters to saveDelims
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>-- "-435,00"
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>Obviously that's not a very good solution - depends on how desperate you
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>are, I guess.
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Thanks a lot for the hint!
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It seems like something along this is what I will have to do.
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More elegant, however, would be the ability so set delimiters for words.
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The problem with the proposal above is that I must know exactly the number
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of spaces (which can vary). I would like to set a delimeter of white space.
I imagine that Chris Nebel's reply gets closer to the root of your main
problem; but just out of interest, to adapt JR's idea to meet your
objection:
set saveDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {" "}
log item -1 of (text items 1 thru word -1 of "bla bla -435,00 ")
-- or:
log text item -1 of (text 1 thru word -1 of "bla bla -435,00 ")
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to saveDelims
NG