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Re: Tidying a string
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Re: Tidying a string


  • Subject: Re: Tidying a string
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:56:38 -0700

On Apr 28, 2005, at 9:42 AM, pete boardman wrote:

Given a text string such as " foo bar foo bar foo bar ", where there are a variable number of spaces between each word, and 0 or more spaces at both start and end, I'd like to strip all unnecessary spaces and get "foo bar foo bar foo bar". I can't seem to get text delimiters working to do this. Is there an easy and fast way?

set foo to " foo bar foo bar foo bar " set text item delimiters to space set foo to text items of foo set foobar to {} repeat with i from 1 to count of foo if item i of foo is not "" then copy item i of foo to end of foobar end repeat foobar set foobar to foobar as string set text item delimiters to "" set foo to foobar

-- Michelle

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