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Re: String manip: from AppleScript to shell
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Re: String manip: from AppleScript to shell


  • Subject: Re: String manip: from AppleScript to shell
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 20:06:16 -0700

On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 04:45 PM, Philippe GRUCHET wrote:

-- string manipulation: swaps two words (here, space separated)

set {aString, text item delimiters} to {"Apple Script", space}
aString's text item 2 & space & aString's text item 1 --> "Script Apple"

-- eos

From: Ivan Andrus <email@hidden>

-- string manipulation: swaps two words (here, space separated)

set aString to "Apple Script"
do shell script "perl -e 'print(join \" \", reverse split /\\s+/, \"" & aString & "\");'"
--> "Script Apple"

-- eos

In straight applescript:

set aString to "Apple Script"
set {tid, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, space}
set aString to (reverse of text items of aString) as text
set text item delimiters to tid
aString

--> "Script Apple"

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