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theText is empty. why?

Subject: theText is empty. why?
From: doug rogers <email@hidden>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 14:25:25 -0400

property devToolsPath : "/Developer/Tools/" -- path to Apple Developer Tools on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving theFile -- from gnarlodious set clipPath to quoted form of POSIX path of theFile set cmd to devToolsPath & "DeRez -e -only 'TEXT' " & clipPath & " | grep '\\/\\* .* \\*\\/' | sed 's/^.*\\/\\* //;s/ \\*\\/$//' | tr -d '\\n'" set theText to do shell script cmd display dialog theText & "There are " & (count of items of theText) & " items." --zero items

... more script that does something with the text I want to get from the clipping ...

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