Re: can't make { . . . } into an item [error message]
Re: can't make { . . . } into an item [error message]
- Subject: Re: can't make { . . . } into an item [error message]
- From: monk <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 15:49:14 -0400
-- 7/14/01 10:50 am: email@hidden said:
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At 07/14/2001 10:18 -0400, monk wrought:
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> hi way more advanced scripters than me
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> i'm making progress with my script but for the life of me i can not read
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> half a list, and set it to a variable, what is obviously with this excerpt?
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> repeat with i in _readsource
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> set _item to (get some item of _readsource)
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> set _1sthalf to (read _readsource as list in front of contents of _item
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> using delimiter {return, space})
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Hello Monk,
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Well now, this depends upon what your data is, and there's a bug in
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AppleScript 1.6's Read With Delimiter as List that returns a list of lists.
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I would approach the problem this way (I think).
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Datafile structure:
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one
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two
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three
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four
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five
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set f to alias "Minerva:Desktop Folder:test.as"
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set theData to paragraphs of (read f)
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set firstHalf to items 1 thru ((count of theData) / 2) of theData
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i'm using as 1.4.3 on os 9.04
if i didn't want to use arbitrary selection (some), then your idea of
counting data might be fine - any other suggestions?
thanks
h 'monk' elmer
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