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Re: ctrl m question


  • Subject: Re: ctrl m question
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:01:24 -0500

So you have a line of text from an email message in an AppleScript
variable as a string.  For whatever reason, the text is still in its
encoded form, with equal signs to indicate soft returns, so you want
to chop off any ("=" & return) off the end. (No newline after the
return?)

Any reason why this wouldn't work?

if theLine ends with ("=" & return) then
       set theLine to (characters 1 through ((length of theLine) - 2)
of theLine) as string
end if




On 12/15/06, John C. Welch <email@hidden> wrote:
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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