Re: How to use delimiters in Standard Additions file read/write commands?
Re: How to use delimiters in Standard Additions file read/write commands?
- Subject: Re: How to use delimiters in Standard Additions file read/write commands?
- From: Charles Arthur <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 21:16:52 +0000
Hi..
What confuses me about this is that there is essentially no difference
between my script and D+C's; except "set thelist to read filRef" where I
had "set thelist to read thefile".
So why do I get "parameter error"?
At 9:37 am -0800 18/3/01, Devon and Cornwall wrote:
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At 10:40 AM +0000 3/18/01, Charles Arthur wrote:
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>I'm interested in the file commands of the Standard Additions for reading
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>(and doing fast TID-based search+replace).
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>
>However my script
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> ----
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>set thefile to choose file
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>open for access thefile
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>set theend to get eof of thefile
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>--display dialog (theend & " bytes") as string -- used in earlier debugging
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>set thelist to read thefile using delimiter {" "}
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>close access thefile
>
>----
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>fails at the "set thelist to..." point with "parameter error".
>
>
If you just want the words of a file in a list you can use either of these:
>
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set thefile to choose file
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set filRef to open for access thefile
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set thelist to read filRef using delimiter {" "}
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close access filRef
>
thelist
Charles
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