Re: preserving literal text in AppleScripts
Re: preserving literal text in AppleScripts
- Subject: Re: preserving literal text in AppleScripts
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 11:47:53 +0100
At 5:41 PM -0500 12/15/06, Cameron Hayne wrote:
I don't want to have to manually insert backslashes in this code
where needed to preserve it from interpretation by AppleScript.
If you don't want to manually insert backslashes, why wouldn't you
insert them automatically? You would use a scripting language, for
instance AppleScript, why not (our programs work that way thousands
of times a day.)
FYI, escaping an AS string is one instruction (uses Satimage.osax,
but I'm sure plenty users can propose versions slightly longer which
don't):
set s to "\"" & (change {"\\", "\""} into {"\\\\", "\\\""} in s) & "\""
Emmanuel
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