Re: Soft returns in string variable?
Re: Soft returns in string variable?
- Subject: Re: Soft returns in string variable?
- From: dave dowling <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 01:30:34 -0500
Graff,
I've only been able to reproduce it myself in FileMaker Pro. If you
have it, try your Mail tell block, and add a FileMaker block that sets
a field to your myParseText variable. If your results are like mine,
your FileMaker field will display the naughty characters.
You don't really even need to attempt to reproduce the problem unless
you are curious, since Walter earlier today unearthed the clue I needed
to solve the problem.
On Feb 5, 2004, at 12:21 AM, Graff wrote:
I tried a little experiment and I wasn't able to duplicate what you
are seeing. If I run this script I only find Unix-style line endings:
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tell application "Mail"
set myMessage to selection
set myParseText to (content of item 1 of myMessage) as string
end tell
set thirteenFound to false
set theIndex to 0
repeat with theChar in every character of myParseText
if ((ASCII number theChar) = 10) then
if thirteenFound then
display dialog "Windows-style" & return & "At: " & theIndex
else
display dialog "Unix-style" & return & "At: " & theIndex
end if
else
if thirteenFound then
display dialog "Mac-style" & return & "At: " & theIndex
end if
end if
set thirteenFound to false
if ((ASCII number theChar) = 13) then
set thirteenFound to true
end if
set theIndex to theIndex + 1
end repeat
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For every single message that I selected and then ran this script, I
only saw Unix-style line endings. The only exception to this was for
html-encoded emails which I wasn't able to get any content on at all.
The only difference I was able to see was that if I changed this line:
set myParseText to (content of item 1 of myMessage) as string
to this:
set myParseText to (content of item 1 of myMessage) as text
With "as string" I got ASCII text, with "as text" I got Unicode text.
If I didn't use any coercion I got the same as using "as text".
You can see what line endings you have in a Mail message by opening
the message, pressing option-command-u, and then control-clicking on
the message body and selecting "Show Control Characters" from the
contextual menu. Unix-style endings will be "\n", Mac-style will be
"\r", and Windows-style will be "\r\n".
For some reason your messages are coming up as Windows-style, but I
don't think they should be. In any event you can make sure that all
line endings are converted to Unix-style with these three lines:
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set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ASCII character 10
display dialog (every paragraph of (content of myMsg)) as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
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- Ken
On Feb 4, 2004, at 7:13 AM, dave dowling wrote:
I'm doing some scripting with Apple Mail. If I manually copy all the
text from the body of an email, I can set a variable to the clipboard
like this:
[do manual copy]
set myParseText to the clipboard
etc...
and my script works fine. However, if I have AS set a variable with
the content of the email message like this:
set myParseText to (content of myMsg)
or this:
set myParseText to (content of myMsg) as string
or even this:
set the clipboard to (content of myMsg) as string
set myParseText to the clipboard
I get non-ASCII characters in my resulting string. When I copy the
unwanted characters into BBEdit and choose to show invisibles, they
show up as carriage returns. In FileMaker Pro, which is the end
point for my text variable, I get little squares instead of legible
characters. I know I can zap gremlins in BBEdit to get rid of the
unwanted characters, but I'm hoping there's a way to strip them in AS
alone. I really don't care about adding any other applications to my
script.
Any idea why a manual copy to the clipboard would be different from
an AS copy to the clipboard? More important, any idea how I can set
a variable and strip out the non-ASCII characters?
Thanks.
Dave Dowling
http://www.davedowling.com
Free at last! How I found peace with God:
http://www.davedowling.com/peace.htm
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Thanks.
Dave Dowling
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