Re: Strange text item delimiter effect
Re: Strange text item delimiter effect
- Subject: Re: Strange text item delimiter effect
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 21:38:09 -0500
On 12/3/02 7:47 PM, "Jeffrey Mattox" <email@hidden> wrote:
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The last line of code below gives different results depending on
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whether the value of text item delimiters is "" or return. My
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AppleScript book clearly says that the TID setting only affects text
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items, not characters, words or paragraphs.
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set outText to ""
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set someStuff to (paragraphs 2 through 100 of theInputText)
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set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return
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set outText to outText & someStuff
You probably will get what you want if you use the construction
"text from paragraph 2 to paragraph 100 of theInputText"
"text from A to B" uses A and B as delimiters, and extracts the string between.
A through B gives you every item (in this case, every paragraph) between A and
B, as a list of paragraphs.
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