Text Item Delimiters length limit?
Text Item Delimiters length limit?
- Subject: Text Item Delimiters length limit?
- From: Matthew Stuckwisch <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:27:57 -0500
In working to try to get my Hangman application to search for word
definitions after you've figure out the word, I needed to be able to
parse through a lovely text file (I have yet to find a Spanish
XML-based dictionary site) which even luckier for me is to big to fit
into one AppleScript variable
So, to work around this latter problem, I just save it directly from a
do shell script to a temp file and read from around the area the text I
need will start (very rough, I know, but it should work). My problem
is that I want to isolate the HTML code that contains the definitions.
If I use a multi-line text item delimiter, it always fails to correctly
break apart the string. If use a single line delimiter, it fails after
about 30-40 characters in length or so.
Has anyone encountered anything similar? Is there a length limit? Or
am I just doing something wrong?
Matthew Stuckwisch
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