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Re: ctrl m question


  • Subject: Re: ctrl m question
  • From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:43:25 -0600
  • Thread-topic: ctrl m question

On 12/15/06 14:12, "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden> wrote:

>> I'm not looking specifically for a "do shell script solution", but I do need
>> it to be something that won't require any additional OSAXen. I just need to
>> be able to strip the last two characters off of a line including the EOL, so
>> that it mates up with the line that follows. I can probably do this in
>> vanilla applescript, but I've been dealing with Websphere headaches and my
>> brain is fried, so there's an obvious answer but I just can't see it
>
> It partly depends on what you're doing with the lines.  Are you
> writing to a file, building a single big string in AppleScript, making
> a list of lines, or what?

Writing to a file. The number of spaces between items is immaterial, nor are
the quotes a problem since it's eventually going into Excel.

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