Re: Count of Tab characters
Re: Count of Tab characters
- Subject: Re: Count of Tab characters
- From: "Arthur J Knapp" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:57:41 -0500
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Subject: Re: Count of Tab characters
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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:09:53 -0600
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From: Bill Planey <email@hidden>
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Where does one get MacPerl, and what is it?
In that order ? ;-)
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http://www.macperl.com/>
I haven't been following this thread, but did you try:
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {tab}
set len to count of text items in TheText -- whatever the text is
set len to (len - 1) -- 1 less than number of text items
--
{
Arthur J Knapp, of STELLARViSIONs ;
http://www.STELLARViSIONs.com ;
mailto:email@hidden ;
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/
macos8/InterproCom/AppleScriptScripters/
AppleScriptLangGuide/
}