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Re: Optimizing Character Matching

Subject: Re: Optimizing Character Matching
From: Tim Mansour <email@hidden>
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 16:20:30 +1100

On 04/11/2006, at 11:55 am, Rick Gordon wrote:

         tell character 1 of pStyleName
            if it contains " " or it contains "-" or it contains "_" or it contains "<" or it contains ">" or it contains "(" or it contains ")" or it contains "*" or it contains "*" or it contains "~" then
              set tempName to (characters 2 thru -1 of pStyleName as text)
            end if
          end tell

I'd be testing the other way round for this Rick:

if " -_<>()*~" contains (character 1 of pStyleName) then set tempName to ...

And having said that, I agree with Gary that you could save yourself a lot of effort with the Satimage scripting addition--or TextCommands which is Unicode aware:

<http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/downloads.html>

<http://osaxen.com/files/textcommands1.0.1.html>

--

Tim Mansour <email@hidden>

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