Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
- Subject: Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 23:47:49 -0700
On May 6, 2005, at 2:07 PM, David Marshall wrote:
I greatly admire the syntactical efficiency of C, for example. Years
ago I was able to write an absurd little command-line program that
took as input an English word and returned its Pig Latin equivalent.
(Try THAT in AppleScript!)
I've done that; here's a minor modification of the code I posted on
May 21 two years ago:
set originalText to "Now is the time for all good men to come to the
aid of their parties."
set tempResult to {}
set vowels to {"a", "e", "i", "o", "u"}
set translationList to the words of the originalText
repeat with thisWord in translationList
if the first character of thisWord is in the vowels then
set tempResult to tempResult & (thisWord & "yay" as text) as
list
else
if (character 1 of thisWord is in {"t", "c", "s"} and
character 2 of thisWord is "h") then
set n to 2
else
set n to 1
end if
set thisWord to (text (n + 1) thru -1 of thisWord) & (text 1
thru n of thisWord) & "ay" as text
set tempResult to tempResult & thisWord as list
end if
end repeat
set {TID, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, space}
set the resultingText to tempResult as text
set text item delimiters to TID
resultingText
-->
"owNay isyay ethay imetay orfay allyay oodgay enmay otay omecay otay
ethay aidyay ofyay eirthay artiespay"
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Misquotation of unattributed, trite
metaphysical saying goes here.
Stupid ascii Unnecessary notice of
graphic goes here. responsibility goes here.
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