Re: Lowlights of AppleScript 1.5.5 in Mac OS 9.1
Re: Lowlights of AppleScript 1.5.5 in Mac OS 9.1
- Subject: Re: Lowlights of AppleScript 1.5.5 in Mac OS 9.1
- From: What does not kill you only makes you stronger <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:32:40 -0600
on 01/11/01 8:12 PM, email@hidden wrote:
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>> Anyone able to read a text file using delimiter return? (9.1)
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>> Where did my lists go?
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> Has anyone tried this yet. It broke my "essential" surfing script that
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> loads a list of urls from a text list, and goes to the next site when no
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> more windows are open.
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> Bummer.
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> Nate
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Well the read/write thing has always been screwy so I've never written
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anything that depends on it. I figured they'd eventually fix it, and
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in doing so, would break my scripts which relied up it working (or
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took advantage of side effects of its not working!)
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If you're talking about a simple return delimited list it should be
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easy as constructing a box-girder bridge.
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It can't be that hard to replicate whatever result you need using
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AppleScript's text delimiters instead.
I know how to do that (from writing a script to read an over 10,000 line
tab delimited excel documents.) but thanks, and I am sure it was helpful to
others on the list.
BUT, it's the point that yes, they are making OS 9.1 similar to OS X (Beta)
in that AppleScript is broken... I only applied the update to my home mac,
as I *really* don't have the time to "fix" all my scripts to work in 9.1.
I am interested in knowing if anyone has tried downgrading AS in 9.1.
The Grinch