Re: Removing characters from a string
Re: Removing characters from a string
- Subject: Re: Removing characters from a string
- From: Kai Edwards <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:56:52 +0000
on 29/10/02 10:02 am, I wrote:
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- or you could do most of it with TIDs, looping through the illegal characters
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instead:
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set l to {".", ",", "/", ":"}
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set n to "this/might not.be a legal:name, then again, it could be."
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set tid to text item delimiters
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repeat with i from 1 to count l
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set text item delimiters to l's item i
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set n to (n as string)'s text items
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end repeat
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set text item delimiters to tid
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set n to n as string
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if n's length > 32 then set n to n's text 1 thru 32
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n
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- or better still, this shaves a whisker off the length and time:
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set tid to text item delimiters
set l to {".", ",", "/", ":", tid}
set n to "this/might not.be a legal:name, then again, it could be."
set text item delimiters to l's item 1
repeat with i from 2 to count l
set {n, text item delimiters} to {(n as string)'s text items, l's item i}
end repeat
set n to n as string
if n's length > 32 then set n to n's text 1 thru 32
n
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Kai
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