Re: Optimizing Character Matching
Re: Optimizing Character Matching
- Subject: Re: Optimizing Character Matching
- From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 17:39:52 -0800
Thanks, Tim & Gary for your comments.
I have downloaded Satimage, Text Commands, and List and Record Tools, figuring that with some combination of those three additions, I'll have a better toolbox.
This may not be pertinent in the light of what's possible with those additions (which I can't really explore right now), but really, I'd prefer to phrase the question as:
Does this string contain any character in a list of known bad characters?
OR
Does this string contain any character besides [A-Za-z0-9], and does it begin with a digit?
(And not to have to do it via a character-by-character repeat loop.)
Rick Gordon
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On 11/4/06 at 4:20 PM +1100, Tim Mansour wrote in a message entitled
"Re: Optimizing Character Matching":
>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://www.satimage.fr/software/en/downloads.html>
><<http://osaxen.com/files/textcommands1.0.1.html>http://osaxen.com/files/textcommands1.0.1.html>
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On 11/3/06 at 9:49 PM -0500, Gary (Lists) wrote in a message entitled
"Re: Optimizing Character Matching":
>In human terms, what you wish to ask is:
>
> Is this character in a list of known bad characters?
>
>
>So, just use a list of known bad characters, and compare against that using
>"is in".
>
>Here is a non-contextual example:
>
>--
>set bad_chars to {"<", ">", "(", ")", "-", "_", "*", "*", "~"}
>set this_char to ")"
>this_char is in bad_chars
>--> true
--
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