Re: text item delimiter-resolved.
Re: text item delimiter-resolved.
- Subject: Re: text item delimiter-resolved.
- From: kai <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 16:44:54 +0100
On Monday, May 2, 2005, at 01:44 pm, Ruby Madraswala wrote:
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?
Whenever you see a shell script command, Ruby, you can usually check it
out by opening Terminal and typing 'man someCommand' (without the
quotes) in the Terminal window.
(And what does 'man' mean? Just type 'man man' in the Terminal window
for an explanation.)
Taking a couple of the shell scripts suggested in this thread as
examples, you'll see that 'sed' stands for "stream editor" and 'tr'
means "translate characters". You should also get some idea of how the
command may be used, along with the options available. (Don't worry if
you still can't make too much sense of what you see - the syntax isn't
always that obvious!)
However, your decision to go with Mark's suggestion for this particular
job was a very sound one, IMO.
Here, for example, to replace numbers 1-9 with alpha characters "a"-"i"
(as demonstrated in several of the examples suggested), his TID-based
script is executed 11 times faster than 'tr' and 13 times faster than
'sed'.
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kai
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