Re: Trim?
Re: Trim?
- Subject: Re: Trim?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 08:48:20 -0700
On 8/3/02 6:24 AM, "Nigel Garvey" <email@hidden>
wrote:
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The following effort covers all the eventualities, as far as I can see:
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set s to " email@hidden 'This is a > string?' "
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set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {space}
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set l to s's text items
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set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
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-- Prepend a space to every non-blank text item except the first
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set started to false
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repeat with thisItem in l
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if (count thisItem) > 0 then
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if started then
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set thisItem's contents to (space & thisItem)
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else
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set started to true
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end if
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end if
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end repeat
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return l as string --> "email@hidden 'This is a > string?'"
Very good, Nigel.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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