Re: AppleScript Read file in Filemaker
Re: AppleScript Read file in Filemaker
- Subject: Re: AppleScript Read file in Filemaker
- From: Hanaan Rosenthal <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 9:19:41 -0500
- Organization: Custom Flow Solutions
Hello Jim,
Here's what I think is happening:
The script repeats while filePos is less than EOF, but in the read file command
you read from filePos to filePos + 30000.
You have to check if (filePos + 30000) is less than EOF.
Hanaan
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I have an AppleScript which I run from within FileMaker using the
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[perform Applescript] script step. This script reads data from a text
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file in chunks so my database can process it. The data file comes from
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a piece of lab equipment that outputs a text file that is gibberish --
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no delimiters or intelligent formatting -- which is why I need to parse
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it. I have considered switching to a plug-in, but I have many users
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and don't want to hassle with the licensing issues.
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I'm running FileMaker 6 on MacOSX - Panther.
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This script used to work, but something has changed and I now get
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errors (maybe Panther?). It does work fine if I run it in the
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AppleScript Script Editor, but from within FileMaker I get the error.
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Here's part of the script:
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repeat while filePos < (get eof file theFIle)
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set theData to (read file theFIle from filePos to filePos + 30000)
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tell application "FileMaker Developer"
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set data cell "Data_g" of current record to theData as string
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end tell
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-- then run my script to process the data
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end repeat
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close access
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The error is: Expected "," but found identifier. (Error - 2741).
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FileMaker appears to be gagging on the "read file" in line two of the
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code.
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Any ideas?
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