Reading Text File in only produces one item as list
Reading Text File in only produces one item as list
- Subject: Reading Text File in only produces one item as list
- From: Dan Doughtie <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:14:29 -0400
- Thread-topic: Reading Text File in only produces one item as list
I am reading in a text file. When I look at the variable¹s value in
ScriptDebugger it says it is ³Styled Text² (funky little red and blue A¹s
symbol). I can¹t seem to get the value of the variable to break into any
list. I can set something to ³word 9² and get that word. But what I need to
do is grab everything after ³PAGES² to the end of the file. In a 10.3.9
version I used Acme Widgets to tokenize using PAGES as the token and then
grabbing item 2. That still works on my old G5 using ASW 3.0.5. (I have a
corp license with Wayne but he hasn¹t sent me 3.0.6 which I assume works on
intel).But the version of Widgets I have won¹t work on an Intel Mac and I
was told by my handlers not to use any third party OSAX. But I can¹t coerce
this puppy into a list. This is a basic Applescript 101 script. The text
file is generated by a program called ALS. The file is not a .txt file but
acts like one. Is there a way to coerce it into usable data? I¹ve tried
setting the text delimiters to ³a², which should have broken it into lots of
pieces but it did nothing. Still a list with 1 item and that 1 item had
everything in it.
tell application "Finder"
open for access file IDFFilE2
set PageInfoSet to read file IDFFilE2 as text
close access file IDFFilE2
end tell
Here is what the data looks like (there are tabs between items) copied
directly out of Scriptdebugger. Looks just like this in BBEdit also.
Tab File
PRODUCT
DATE 20-JUL-07
PAPER Daily
EDITION Daily
PARAMETERS
HMEASURE INCHES
VMEASURE INCHES
TOTALWIDTH 14.0
TOTALDEPTH 22.5
TOPMARGIN 0.25
BOTTOMMARGIN 0.75
INSIDEMARGIN 3.0
OUTSIDEMARGIN 3.0
LIVEWIDTH 8
LIVEDEPTH 21.5
COLUMN 6
GUTTER 0.11
SECTIONLIST
1 16 16
PAGES
1*A* Black
2*A* Black
3*A* Black
4*A* Black
5*A* Black
6*A* Black
7*A* Black
8*A* Black
9*A* Black
10*A* Black
11*A* Black
12*A* Black
13*A* Black
14*A* Black
15*A* Black
16*A* Black
Dan Doughtie
Morris Technology Services
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