Re: Project scope - is it worth doing?
Re: Project scope - is it worth doing?
- Subject: Re: Project scope - is it worth doing?
- From: "Serge Belleudy-d'Espinose" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:53:06 +0100
At 16:11 -0800 26/02/01, Doug Messick wrote:
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I have had a script idea in my head for some time now, but haven't gotten
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around to starting it. Here is the problem:
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I help edit a local non-profit newsletter, and get article submissions
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(plain text) from various sources. I have to go through these in search of
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animal names, and change the first reference to each to be the Common name
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followed by Scientific name. I have a text file containing the common names
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of 500 animals with their corresponding scientific names which I manually
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look through for reference at the moment.
AFAIK, AppleScript is perfectly capable of doing all these:
- loading one article
- loading your 'database' and turning it into a table
- cycling through the database and doing a search/replace on your article
Whether it's the most efficient or not is a completely different matter I don't know enough about to discuss.
Serge
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