Re: list of (more than one) text item delimiters
Re: list of (more than one) text item delimiters
- Subject: Re: list of (more than one) text item delimiters
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:36:16 -0500
As others have said you can't use more than one delimiter at a time.
That's too bad because I can think of a lot of uses for a list of
delimiters.
On an aside, oddly enough using the date class doesn't seem to work
correctly with the time "01:23:12.03". When I do:
set theTime to date "01:23:12.03"
It mistakenly converts this to:
"Monday, January 23, 2012 3:00:00 AM"
Obviously it is getting confused and is treating the string as
something similar to this:
01.23.12.03
If I remove the .03 like this:
set theTime to date "01:23:12"
I get the much more correct:
Tuesday, December 16, 2003 1:23:12 AM
Perhaps the Date class should be tweaked a little bit to better handle
values such as this. I believe that the Date is stored internally as
an integer value with a unit of seconds and so the decimal part of the
value would probably lost but it probably should still properly handle
dates formatted like this by internally rounding or truncating the
decimal part.
Oh well, just something else to keep in mind when handling dates and
times.
- Ken
On Dec 16, 2003, at 9:42 AM, Brennan wrote:
Is it possible to use more than one text item delimiter at a time, for
example, given the timecode string,
"01:23:12.03"
I'd like to be able to use the delimiters {":", "."} to fish out all
the
numerical values in one fell swoop.
set {HH, MM, SS, tt} to text items of myString
If this isn't possible, can someone explain what the thinking is behind
Applescript's text item delimiters being a list?
I can't see that this has any uses whatsoever (unless they were being
very
forward looking to a time when it will do what I expect).
Apologies if this has been asked before. Feel free to direct me to an
appropriate archive in lieu of a freshly written answer.
Brennan
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