Re: loop to build a list?
Re: loop to build a list?
- Subject: Re: loop to build a list?
- From: Martin Crisp <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:53:17 +1100
- Organization: Tesseract Computing
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 20:10:17 +1100, James Burns wrote
(in message <
email@hidden>):
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Hello:
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I've, once again, run into the limitations of my knowledge or
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ability... This is what happens when a Fine Art major attempts to
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code...
There should be a law ;-)
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I'm trying to extract information from a formatted text file, and what
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I want to end up with is a list of the items extracted. Is there a good
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generalized routine for accumulating results into a list while
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repeating?
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Here's the chunk that I'm working on, but it won't make a whole lot of
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sense out of context:
set gotit to {}
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set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "{" -- Check out lines of
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file starting with open bracket
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set i to text items of extContent -- for each line
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repeat with foundString in i -- repeat loop
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if foundString contains "ImageSaver" then -- further narrowing
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selection
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set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " " -- break into "words"
Rather than setting the TIDs here, you'd get a little more speed by
moving it to just before the repeat loop. [and don't forget to set
it back afterwards]
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set gotIt to {text item 8 of foundString}
Change that to:
set end of gotit to {text item 8 of foundString}
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log gotIt -- Here gotit has the value I want
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end if
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end repeat
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This produces a log that successfully lists the values I want, on each
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repeat, but I want it stuck in a list for storage and manipulation.
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Does that make sense?
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Thanks in advance for your help.
Have Fun
Martin
--
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