replacing text
replacing text
- Subject: replacing text
- From: Michael Glasser <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 21:30:49 -0700
The apple web site has a script for replacing a word in text, for
example "I like bananas" could become "I like apples"... but their
example only works if you know the case of the text in question. I
have been struggling with making a function that would allow me to
check a set of words and change the text... for example see the
following code... I want it to display "I WANT TO SEE A big PENGUIN"...
but I can not get the function replace_words to work...
any ideas on a working example of
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set the_list to {"penguin","turtle","owl")
set the_text to "I WANT TO SEE A PENGUIN"
repeat with loop from 1 to number of items in the_list
set the_word to item loop of the_list
set the_text to replace_words (the_text,the_word,"big " & the_word)
end repeat
display dialog the_text -- answer should be "I WANT TO SEE A big
PENGUIN" (I do not expect the replacement text to guess the case)
on replace_words (full_text, search_string, replacement_string)
do nifty magic that just works
return magic_text
end
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