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Re: Help with find text command
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Re: Help with find text command


  • Subject: Re: Help with find text command
  • From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:06:32 -0700

On 2007-08-03, at 01:57:55, Ed Stockly wrote:

No need for shell scripting or RegEx on this one

I stand by that.

I already knew that it's possible to do this with "pure AppleScript" because I made one up to test so I wouldn't ask you to do the impossible :-)



>>philip>>The script found the two "legal" ISBN-10s in the 't' variable.

There are four "legal" ISBN-10s in the 't' variable. Which are you finding and which are you not finding?

There were only two legal IBSN-10s in the previous "t" variable I posted. The other two were illegal. One had an extra "z" on the end and the other was embedded in a larger "word" that looked like a bizarre email address.



Still no go. I'm sure it's line breaks, but I don't know enough about shell scripting to fix it.

Most likely it's your emailer settings. Compared to everyone else on the list, even those not using Mail.app, your quoting is also non- standard.


I've attached a new version of the variable "t" (and it's equivalent in a Tcl script so you can verify that they are the same text except for quoting conventions). Now there is a 3rd legal ISBN which is not mapped to a new ISBN-13.


Actually your challenge didn't mention inserting them in the original text,

That was in one of William's messages where he specified his needs.


In my script the timing starts when the user clicks "OKAY". So that shouldn't be an issue.

Please don't use (choose file) for this test because we'll be timing it via 'time' from Terminal to get the microsecond times. I'll help you optimize the AppleScript if need be.



Plus, I assume we're both doing complete solutions, right?

No. We're just testing "pure AppleScript" vs pure Tcl in this test. That is, AppleScript doesn't call 'do shell script' and Tcl doesn't call 'AppleScript'


Output the HTML file on the user's desktop.

Philip Aker
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