Re: Separating Text
Re: Separating Text
- Subject: Re: Separating Text
- From: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:45:08 -0500
- Organization: [very little]
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Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 17:55:33 -0700
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To: email@hidden
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From: JRyan <email@hidden>
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Subject: Separating Text
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Thanks to everyone who aided me with my GraphicConverter problem. It
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works nicely now!
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My next step is to set the IPTC keywords (in GC), to words also from
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the file's Finder Info...
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My latest problem is setting my comment variable to only part of the
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comment text (only up to some special character) and then my keyword
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variables to the remaining words... I seem to be having difficulty
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reading and copying only parts of the text.. I think I can do this
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by writing the comment to a file and then reading the file with the
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'until' and 'from' parameters, but is there a way I can do this and
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have the script stay self contained?
You can use the "offset" command, which is part of Standard Additions:
set theText to "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all!"
set x to the offset of "," in theText
set newText to (text 1 thru (x - 1) of theText) as text
-->"If you can't say something nice"
Marc K. Myers <email@hidden>
http://AppleScriptsToGo.com
4020 W.220th St.
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[11/20/01 8:44:46 AM]