AsciiNumber & AsciiCharacter Handlers
AsciiNumber & AsciiCharacter Handlers
- Subject: AsciiNumber & AsciiCharacter Handlers
- From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 16:50:40 -0400
Here's a pair of handlers that might be interesting to those having
to call Ascii Number or Ascii Character a lot. But I couldn't even read
them after the copy into Mail.app, I'm sure the list server would have
made them come out like an explosion in a type foundry!
I've replaced the 'unmailable' characters with the word 'gobledygook '.
Just set the variable allTextCharacters to the result of this
snippet...
set chars to ""
repeat with i from 0 to 255
set chars to chars & (ASCII character i)
end repeat
--> "gobledygook" replacement text
on asciiCharacter(parameters)
set allTextCharacters to "gobledygook"
return item (parameters + 1) of allTextCharacters
end asciiCharacter
on asciiNumber(parameters)
set allTextCharacters to "gobledygook"
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to parameters
set temp to (every text item of allTextCharacters)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
set ind to (length of (item 1 of temp))
end asciiNumber
I get speed comparisons of...
22sec for 10K ascii number commands.
5 sec for 10K asciiNumber() calls.
21 sec for 10K ascii character commands.
1 sec for 10K asciiCharacter() calls!
No error checking or multiple argument capacity in this version. Just a
speed test really.
--
Paul Skinner
OS version 10.1.4. Applescript verion 1.8.2b
We don' need no stinkin OSAXen!
jk, yes we do
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