Re: Case sensitive find/replace
Re: Case sensitive find/replace
- Subject: Re: Case sensitive find/replace
- From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:46:14 -0700
>>Marc>>AppleScript was designed so that people can use the capabilities of different applications in a single work flow. Why not use it that way?
> >>Marc>>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.
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That's a fine suggestion if you're dealing with raw, text and not worried about fonts and styles, but this text is in a Quark document which could contain numerous style and font changes, as well as a few Quark specific characters that handle such things as soft return, new columns, next text box etc., which a scriptable text editor might mangle or ignore.
The OP's script and the solution I posted generally maintain the styles applied to the text within the Quark doc.
But, to build on Marc's suggestion, since Quark has a fairly robust text editor, the best solution would be to script Quark's own Find and Replace feature, but, at least in Quark 4.x, I don't think that's an option.
(Even when dealing with raw text, I think using TID's is faster than scripting find and replace in most text editors, but both work).
ES
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