• Open Menu Close Menu
  • Apple
  • Shopping Bag
  • Apple
  • Mac
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • Watch
  • TV
  • Music
  • Support
  • Search apple.com
  • Shopping Bag

Lists

Open Menu Close Menu
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Lists hosted on this site
  • Email the Postmaster
  • Tips for posting to public mailing lists
Re: multiple text delimiters
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: multiple text delimiters


  • Subject: Re: multiple text delimiters
  • From: "Nigel Garvey" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:36:31 +0100

Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote on 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"

Gary must have something interesting installed on his machine.  :-)

'text of' (in a non-interesting set-up) is the same as 'every string of',
so it's superfluous if the text items are strings and gives an empty list
if they're Unicode text.

NG

 _______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Applescript-users mailing list      (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:

This email sent to email@hidden

  • Prev by Date: Re: Object inheritance question...
  • Next by Date: Getting file paths
  • Previous by thread: Re: multiple text delimiters
  • Next by thread: Re: multiple text delimiters
  • Index(es):
    • Date
    • Thread