Re: String to multiple-item list coercion
Re: String to multiple-item list coercion
- Subject: Re: String to multiple-item list coercion
- From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:33:03 -0400
Cool Arthur! That's very close to what I was trying to do with the
Unicode conversion thread that I botched the other day. So close I had
to try using it there...
tell application "Mail"
set unicodeString to the content of the first item of (get the
selection)
end tell
class of unicodeString -->Unicode text
set {text:plainText} to (text of unicodeString) as text
plainText -->plain text!
--
Paul Skinner
On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 02:41 PM, Arthur J. Knapp wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:12:32 +0100
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> Subject: Re: String to multiple-item list coercion
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>>> set {day:a, month:b, year:c} to date "Sunday, September 1, 2002
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>>> 12:00:00am"
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>>> return {a, b, c}
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>>> --> {1, September, 2002}
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Testing various aspects of the above made me realize that one can do
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without the << >> characters in the styled text to plain text
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conversion:
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set styled_text to the clipboard -- assuming styled text on
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clipboard
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set {text:plain_text} to styled_text
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plain_text --> yup, plain text
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Actually, this is far nicer than the "<<class ktxt>> ... as record"
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thing
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because it doesn't error on plain text:
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set { text : x } to styled_text -- x == plain text
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set { text : y } to plain_text -- y == plain text
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P.S. set a to {1, 2, 3}
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set {length:len, rest:res, reverse:rev} to a
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len --> 3
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res --> {2, 3}
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rev --> {3, 2, 1}
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Fun, but not apparently useful. ;-)
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{ Arthur J. Knapp, of <http://www.STELLARViSIONs.com>
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a r t h u r @ s t e l l a r v i s i o n s . c o m
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