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Re: Case sensitive find/replace

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Re: Case sensitive find/replace

Subject: Re: Case sensitive find/replace
From: Marc Myers <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:11:21 -0400

AppleScript was designed so that people can use the capabilities of different applications in a single work flow. Why not use it that way?

Grab the text you want to manipulate, paste it into a window of a scriptable text editor, and use the text editor's "replace" command to get what you want.

on run set theText to "Charles Lamb said,\"Mary had a little lamb, some mashed potatoes, and mint jelly.\"" set srchStrng to "lamb" set replStrng to "pork" my CSReplace(theText, srchStrng, replStrng) end run

on CSReplace(theText, srchStrng, replStrng) set TEPon to false tell application "Finder" if (name of application processes contains "Tex-Edit Plus") then set TEPon to true end tell tell application "Tex-Edit Plus" make new window at beginning set contents of window 1 to theText replace contents of window 1 looking for srchStrng ¬ replacing with replStrng ¬ with cases matching set theText to contents of window 1 close window 1 without saving if not TEPon then ignoring application responses tell application "Tex-Edit Plus" to quit end ignoring end if end tell return theText end CSReplace

Result: "Charles Lamb said,\"Mary had a little pork, some mashed potatoes, and mint jelly.\"" _______________________________________________ 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: Case sensitive find/replace Next by Date: Re: Keychain scripting Previous by thread: Re: Case sensitive find/replace Next by thread: Re: Case sensitive find/replace Index(es): Date Thread