Re: Questions from Newbie
Re: Questions from Newbie
- Subject: Re: Questions from Newbie
- From: "Arthur J Knapp" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:05:00 -0500
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:20:57 -0800
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Subject: Re: Questions from Newbie
Why do newbies think that it is a good idea to say something
like "help, question, etc... from Newbie". A subject line should
always be descriptive of the subject, and not of the person
sending the post.
The ironic thing is that newbies learn this habit from other
newbies, appearently unaware that saying "newbie" in the
subject line is THE most newbie thing one can do. ;-)
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> Also, I'd appreciate tips on how to parse the "item_comments" properly. All
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> I want it to do is take the right 36 characters, and then the left 32
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> characters. In VBScript (ugh) it would be something as simple as this:
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> item_comments = left(right(item_comments,36),32)
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From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
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Well, that part is even easier in AppleScript:
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set item_comments to text -36 thru -5 of item_comments
Right. :)
There is nothing to stop someone from implementing VBScript-like
commands in AppleScript if they are more familiar with them:
-- AppleScript won't accept "left" or "right" as handler names
on s_left(str, x)
try
return text 1 thru x of str
on error
return str
end try
end s_left
on s_right(str, x)
try
return text -x thru -1 of str
on error
return str
end try
end s_right
-- 40 characters
--
set item_comments to "123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 "
set item_comments to s_left(s_right(item_comments, 36), 32)
-- > "56789 123456789 123456789 123456"
Arthur J. Knapp
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