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Thanks all.

I used the script example given below and it worked.

I did get quite a few suggestions to use “sed”, that’s so new for me. I did not find any reference to this command in Applescript The Definitive Guide book. Is this new or you just know by experience?

Thanks again.

Ruby

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark J. Reed [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 11:01 AM
To: Ruby Madraswala
Cc: Applescript Users
Subject: Re: text item delimiter

That won't work; even if the multiple-delimiter thing worked and the file text were split up properly, you don't have any way of knowing which text items had a 1 between them, which had a 2, etc; you'd probably end up with nothing but 'a's for delimiters in the new file.

You have to do it one at a time:

set fileText to (read file ":path:to:some:file.txt")
set fromList to {"1", "2", "3", "4"}
set toList to {"a", "b", "c", "d"}
set oldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
repeat with i from 1 to count fromList
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to fromList's item i
    set wordList to text items of fileText
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to toList's item i
    set fileText to wordList as text
end repeat
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims

On 4/29/05, Ruby Madraswala <email@hidden> wrote:

Is this doable using text item delimiters, I tried it's not working. All I want to do is search a text file replace all occurrence of 1 to a, 2 to b.........................

Set FileText to read file tmptw from 1
Set Applescript's text item delimiters to {"1","2","3","4"}
Set wordlist to text items of FileText
Set Applescript's text item delimiters to {"a","b","c","d"}
Set FileText to wordlist as text

Ruby

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