Re: text item delimiters
Re: text item delimiters
- Subject: Re: text item delimiters
- From: kai <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 19:24:43 +0000
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:13:57 -0500, David Andrews wrote:
Thanks Kai,
I think what I was poking at is that there appears to be but one item.
Now I see that that does appear to be the case...
For all practical purposes - although the term 'text item delimiters'
does seem to have been created with potential multiplicity, should it
ever be desirable to incorporate in an application. Take, say,
'version' as a sort of parallel (albeit read-only) example:
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property parent : application "TextEdit"
tell application "Script Editor" to {version, my version, AppleScript's
version}
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(Another aspect of the text item delimiters property, which also
appears to have potential multiplicity, is the number of strings in the
list. AppleScript still uses only the first delimiter - but one can't
help wondering...)
Yea, and your [2] was done without any text item delimiters of
AppleScript! (I just had to try it.)
Right. I deliberately sidestepped them. However...
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set text item delimiters to {"rro"}
tell "More than one way to skin a cat" to item -3 & items -2 thru end
--> "carrot"
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On Oct 31, 2004, at 4:07 PM, kai wrote:
[snip]
[2] Nine lives:
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Of course, the repeat loop was a complete red herring...
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tell "More than one way to skin a cat" to {text -3 thru -1, word 8,
text 29 thru 31, word -1, text from word -1 to -1, last word, text from
last word to end, last item of words, text end thru -3}
--> {"cat", "cat", "cat", "cat", "cat", "cat", "cat", "cat", "cat"}
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But then there's more than one way, etc... ;-)
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kai
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