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Re: Change Character


  • Subject: Re: Change Character
  • From: Kim Hunter <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 19:58:57 +1000


On 5/6/05 7:49 PM, "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden> wrote:

> "Kim Hunter" wrote:
>
>> I want to remove the ³:² from a string and replace them with for example
>> either ³-² or ³ - ³ which ever is easier.
>>
>> This works great (in a new script of its own):
>>
>> set str to "Zoom - How to get:set in Photoshop  CS?  MESSAGES"
>> set FinalSTR to RemoveColons(str)
>>
>>
>> on RemoveColons(Substring)
>>   set NewString to do shell script "echo '" & Substring & "' | tr ':'
>> '-'"
>>   return NewString
>> end RemoveColons
>>
>> But when I run it within my script it gives an error cannot continue
>> RemoveColons
>>
>> I don¹t know.
>
> Kim, here is an entry-level vanilla AS version, with no calls to the shell.
> Perhaps it will fill the need, at least temporarily.
>
> set inString to "here:you:go:now"
> set outString to SwapChar(inString, ":", "-")
>
> --> "here-you-go-now"
>
> to SwapChar(str, f, r) -- original string, find, replace
>     set oTIDs to AppleScript's text item delimiters
>     set AppleScript's text item delimiters to f
>     set tmp_ to text items of str
>     set AppleScript's text item delimiters to r
>     set tmp_ to tmp_ as string
>     set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oTIDs
>     return tmp_
> end SwapChar
>
> HTH
> --
> Gary
>
That still returns the error

Cannot continue with SwapChar

I double checked my code and cant see why its not working


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