Learning AppleScript for text manipulation?
Learning AppleScript for text manipulation?
- Subject: Learning AppleScript for text manipulation?
- From: harry brindley <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 09:11:13 -0400
Joseph A. Weaks writes ...
Been lurking for awhile. I'm trying to learn Applescript for a
specific use. I want to be able to write scripts to parse text files,
interpret beta code tags, change font/keymapping schemes, etc. Most
of what I'm talking about is a sequence of find/replace criteria.
In my experience, working through text files is vanilla AppleScript
is _slow_. I'd suggest you look into the pro version of BBEdit, which
is scriptable, recordable and attachable. It has the additional
benefit of being able to do more powerful GREP finds.
Harry