Re: Punctuation in Applescript's Text Item Delimiters
Re: Punctuation in Applescript's Text Item Delimiters
- Subject: Re: Punctuation in Applescript's Text Item Delimiters
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:54:38 +1100
On 12/1/02 2:02 PM +1000, Jay Young, email@hidden, wrote:
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Does anyone know if it is possible to grab punctuation characters in
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applescript's text item delimiters when the punctuation is the last
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character alone? Here's an example:
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Today (tab) is (tab) Friday (tab) ? (return)
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--script
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set Applescript's text item delimiters to tab
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tell app "QuarkXPress 4.11"
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tell story 1 of text box 1 of document 1
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try
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set para1 to paragraph 1
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set paraitm to text items of para1
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set paragraph 2 to text item 4 of paraitm --trying to grab the question
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mark
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end try
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end tell --story 1
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end tell --Quark
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set Applescripts text item delimiters to ""
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The only way I can get the question mark to flow out into paragraph 2 is
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if I add a text character after it. Is there any other possibilities?
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Thanks for your help.
Your problem isn't with the text item delimiters -- it's with QuarkXPress,
which drops trailing punctuation when you ask for a paragraph. Change your
script to "set para1 to text of paragraph 1" and it will get the trailing
punctuation, as well as the trailing return if any.
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden