Search & Replace multiple Paragraph returns
Search & Replace multiple Paragraph returns
- Subject: Search & Replace multiple Paragraph returns
- From: doug rogers <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:12:29 -0400
I have a Search and Replace handler from
<http://bbs.applescript.net/viewtopic.php?id=11449> that I should be
able to use. I want to replace multiple paragraph returns in a variable
with just a single return. To set the value of the search and replace
string, I have copied them out of the original text window. The handle
returns the same text I load into the variable, and Hog Bay Notebook
returns the error that it can't continue SearchReplaceText.
tell application "Hog Bay Notebook"
set TheNewsItem to note of selected entry of notebook viewer 1
searchReplaceText("
", "
", TheNewsItem)
end tell
to searchReplaceText(searchTerm, replaceTerm, theText)
set searchTerm to searchTerm as list
set replaceTerm to replaceTerm as list
set theText to theText as text
set oldTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters
repeat with i from 1 to count searchTerm
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to searchTerm's item i
set theText to theText's text items
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to replaceTerm's item i
set theText to theText as text
end repeat
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldTID
return theText
end searchReplaceText
I also found <http://bbs.applescript.net/viewtopic.php?pid=35449> which
does a call to shell, also returning an error... an error dialog quite
full of all the text it can't parse :-) and a number of error messages
I don't grasp, so I thought I would go back to vanilla above.
But it seems I am trying to do something I don't understand ...
again... :-)
Oh! and I did use the poke and try methods outlined in Matt's book to
get the stuff out of Hog Bay Notebook.... so I am learning something...
There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
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