Re: Find and replace space by the Terminal equivalent
Re: Find and replace space by the Terminal equivalent
- Subject: Re: Find and replace space by the Terminal equivalent
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 08:20:27 -0400
"\ " isn't a legal AppleScript string literal. You need to double the \. "\\ ".
On 10/2/05, Jay Louvion <email@hidden> wrote:
> le 2/10/05 13:02, Barry Wainwright à email@hidden est réputé(e) avoir
> écrit :
>
>
> If you are trying to pass a text string to the shell command line, you can
> just use 'quoted form of ...':
>
> quoted form of "this is a 'test' string"
> -- "'this is a '\\''test'\\'' string'"
>
> This will allow you to send commands such as:
> set myString to "Hello World!"
> do shell script "echo "& quoted form of myString
>
> However, if this is not what you want, then the quickest way to accomplish
> your actual request is to use the TIDs:
>
> Set myString to "Hello World!"
> Set {oldTIDs, applescript's text item delimiters} to { applescript's text
> item delimiters, {" "}}
> Set myString to text items of myString
> Set Applescript's text item delimiters to {"\ "}
> Set myString to Mystring as text
> Set applescript's text item delimiters to oldTIDs
>
>
> Sorry to seem a bit cheeky, there, but does that last piece of text
> actually compile for you?
> Because I'm actually trying to use the TIDS but the {"\ "} bit just doesn't
> compile. I remember a discussion about that kind of thing, but unfortunately
> I didn't save it...
>
> J.
>
>
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