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Re: preserving literal text in AppleScripts
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Re: preserving literal text in AppleScripts


  • Subject: Re: preserving literal text in AppleScripts
  • From: Cameron Hayne <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:59:42 -0500

On 16-Dec-06, at 5:47 AM, Emmanuel wrote:

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) & "\""

The problem is that AppleScript makes it impossible to even define a string with backslashes (without escaping them manually).
E.g. the statement:
set pattern to "/^\s*foo"
is rejected.


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