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Re: multiple text delimiters
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Re: multiple text delimiters


  • Subject: Re: multiple text delimiters
  • From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:19:16 +1000


On Sep 27, 2005, at 2:21 PM, Patrick J. Collins wrote:

Is there a way to set applescripts text delimiters to more than one
character?

On 28/09/2005, at 10:39 AM, Gary (Lists) wrote:

set the target_string to "[this] is (a) (test) (sentence.]"
set text item delimiters to {"]", "[", "(", ")"}
item 1 of (text of (text items of target_string))
--> "this is a test sentence."

That is fantastic! But when I try it:

set the target_string to "[this] is (a) (test) (sentence.]"
set text item delimiters to {"]", "[", "(", ")"}
item 1 of (text of (text items of target_string))
--> "[this"

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