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: Barry Wainwright <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 06:56:45 -0700
- Thread-topic: Find and replace space by the Terminal equivalent
Yeah, sorry about that - the slash does need to be escaped. I forgot that in
my quick write up.
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Barry
> From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
> Reply-To: <email@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 08:20:27 -0400
> To: Jay Louvion <email@hidden>
> Cc: Barry Wainwright <email@hidden>, AS AppleScript Users
> <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Find and replace space by the Terminal equivalent
>
> "\ " 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.
>>
>>
>> Jay Louvion
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>>
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>>
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