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Re: Getting text out of text files

Subject: Re: Getting text out of text files
From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 20:42:36 -0800

The 'read' addition will read any file into an AppleScript object:

read file "path:to:filename"

Andrew
:)

On 3/9/03 8:23 PM, "Richard Simms" <email@hidden> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am making a script that looks at various strings from different
> programs like apple works and eudora. The script works fine if i
> launch the program and select the text with the script but i was
> wondering if it would be possible to get applescript to extract the
> text from a txt file on its own without launching the program that
> created it.
>
> Thanks
>
> Richard Simms
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