Re: TextEdit and Text Item Delimiters
Re: TextEdit and Text Item Delimiters
- Subject: Re: TextEdit and Text Item Delimiters
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 23:53:22 +0200
At 12:58 AM +0200 1/8/02, Christopher Nebel wrote:
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On Wednesday, July 31, 2002, at 03:36 PM, email@hidden wrote:
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> But now I'm trying:
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> tell app "TextEdit" to set allText to the text of document 1
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> set keepSafe to AppleScript's text item delimiters
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> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"="}
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> set keyParagraph to first paragraph whose first text item is "foo"
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As an alternate path, you might try returning to the all-TextEdit
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version, but try using "word n" instead of "text item n". Given your
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data so far, they amount to the same thing, but won't if you start
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throwing in spaces. Failing that, it's always possible to emulate
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"whose" expressions using explicit loops. It's a pain and you shouldn't
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have to, but it does work.
In case Seth is not aware of that, I recall that a widely spread tool for
performing such text processings is the Regular Expressions.
Several Scripting Additions for OS9 (including the Satimage osax), a few
for OSX (including the Satimage osax), implement the Regular Expressions
into AppleScript. Such Scripting Additions let you perform such searches on
AppleScript string variables.
A slightly more comfortable way is to use Smile (a cool editor for
AppleScript that is free) which (both in 9 and X) implements Regular
Expressions which can be used to search AppleScript string variables, but
also to search Smile's Text Windows.
Emmanuel
<netiquette>we make Smile and the Satimage osax</netiquette>
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http://www.satimage-software.com>
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