Re: Regex on OS X
Re: Regex on OS X
- Subject: Re: Regex on OS X
- From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 20:27:38 +1000
On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 12:39 PM, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
I'm running a standard install of Jaguar. The only thing I can see
in /Library/Perl/ is a folder called Darwin.
Then many people pointed to System/Library/Perl/ and Simon Forster said:
FWIW, this works for me (Mac OS 10.2.1):
But I ran foul of privileges, bog standard users aren't allowed to
play in the system folder. I modified the script, at the end of the
do shell script line I appended :
with administrator privileges
then I logged out, logged in as admin, gave my standard login
identity Admin privileges, logged out, logged in as "not a bog
standard user" (now with admin priveleges!) and ran the script. It
does work a charm. It is set out below:
-- thanks to John Delacour for putting in the hard yards
-- thanks to Simon Forster for the path mods
--
set browser to "Opera" -- the name of your browser
set pods to "" & (path to startup disk) & "System:Library:Perl:Pods:"
set ls to list folder pods
set ppt to "Choose a pod"
choose from list ls with prompt ppt default items "perlreftut.pod"
set choice to result as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"."}
set pod to first text item of choice
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
do shell script "pod2html /System/Library/Perl/pods/" & pod & ".pod"
with administrator privileges
set htmlText to result as string
set tmp to (path to temporary items) as string
set f to tmp & pod & ".html"
try
close access file f
end try
open for access file f with write permission
set eof file f to 0
write htmlText to file f
close access file f
tell application browser
open {alias f}
activate
end tell
--
--
Malcolm Fitzgerald email@hidden
Database Manager
http://www.asauthors.org
The Australian Society of Authors ph: 02 93180877 fax: 02 93180530
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