Working with text files in AppleScript
Working with text files in AppleScript
- Subject: Working with text files in AppleScript
- From: Taner Edis <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:35:05 -0500
Hi,
I'm new at AppleScript I thought it'd be a good idea to learn some of
its basics after I got myself an OS X Mac. There's a question I
haven't been able to resolve by looking at the web and the book I have
on hand; perhaps someone here can point me in the right direction.
I thought I'd write a script to convert the html files authomatically
generated by iPhoto, to make them conform to my standard web pages
which have some style sheet stuff, and a standard footer at the bottom.
So I figured it'd be easy to just read in a text file, do a quick
search-and-replace, and rewrite the result out.
It seems, however, that I can't get past the first hurdle, of
successfully reading the contents of a text file into a string. How do
you do this? Here's a test script that I wrote, which always ends up
in the error part, displaying 'It didn't work," never getting to "text
read!". I'm sure I'm doing something wrong which is elementary...
set my_text to "" as text
set my_file to (((path to desktop folder) as text) & "Desktop.html")
my read_file(my_file, my_text)
display dialog my_text
on read_file(some_file, some_text)
try
set some_file to some_file as text
display dialog some_file
set the open_target_file to ,
open for access file some_file
display dialog open_target_file as text
read some_text from the open_target_file
display dialog "text read!"
close access the open_target_file
return true
on error
display dialog "It didn't work"
try
close access file some_file
end try
return false
end try
end read_file
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Taner Edis
http://www2.truman.edu/~edis/
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