Re: multiple text delimiters
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"
Malcolm Fitzgerald ph: 02 93180877
Database Manager fax: 02 93180530
The Australian Society of Authors www.asauthors.org
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