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Weeding out words


  • Subject: Weeding out words
  • From: Brett Conlon <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:38:39 +1000


Hi all,

I have written a "cleanup" handler to search for words within the text returned in a user dialog. However, it is stripping too much and I'm looking for assistance to help me clean up my cleanup.  ;-D

Here's what I've written so far:

set TitleAns to "My Collection box set asset boxy dog box collection is here" -- some example text returned in a user dialog
set Offenders to {"collection", "box", "set", "boxset"} -- words which need to be stripped if the user entered them by mistake.
repeat 5 times --5 times stops endless repeating if any below offending words aren't separated by a space
        set storedDelimiters to AppleScript's text item delimiters
        set OffenderItems to Offenders's items
        repeat with i in OffenderItems
                if TitleAns contains i then
                        set i to (" " & i)
                        set AppleScript's text item delimiters to i
                        set TitleAns to TitleAns's text items
                        set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
                        set TitleAns to TitleAns as Unicode text
                        set AppleScript's text item delimiters to storedDelimiters
                else
                        exit repeat
                end if
        end repeat
end repeat

log TitleAns

result: (*My assety dog is here*)

I guess because I'm using text item delimiters to isolate offending words it is finding them inside other words and messing up those that are supposed to be there.

Your help is most appreciated!

Cheers,

Coj
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