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Re: Microsoft Word do Visual Basic
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Re: Microsoft Word do Visual Basic


  • Subject: Re: Microsoft Word do Visual Basic
  • From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 13:44:51 -0700

On 7/1/03 1:07 PM, "Simon Forster" <email@hidden> wrote:

>
> On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 07:38 pm, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
>
>> The VBA compiler seems to be reading your line endings as Unix-type
>> linefeeds, known to VBA as the constant 'vbLf'. It wants CR carriage
>> returns
>> for line separators.
>
> Ah. The missing bit of info.
>
>> This looks like a new issue resulting from using the beta v2.0 Script
>> Editor, which is Cocoa and must be using LF line-endings. Is that what
>> you're using? (AppleScript itself is now agnostic about line endings:
>> it
>> will read CR, LF and CRLF all as paragraph terminators.)
>
> You're spot on, I am using Script Editor 2 (so much better than 1 don't
> you think?). Err, except when it causes you headaches like this.
>
> I'll try running the script in Script Editor 1 tomorrow and see how it
> goes.
>
> Paul, many thanks for the pointers.

I hope it helps. The version of the script I sent (with FixLineEndings()
handler) should work in any script editor, including both SE 1.9 and SE 2.0.

--
Paul Berkowitz
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