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Re: Tidying a string
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Re: Tidying a string


  • Subject: Re: Tidying a string
  • From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:04:54 +0100

on 28/4/05 17:56, Michelle Steiner at email@hidden wrote:

> 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


Or the lazier:

set t to "  foo    bar foo    bar foo bar   "
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
log words of t as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""

-->    (*foo bar foo bar foo bar*)

--
Martin Orpen



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