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Re: tabs to spaces


  • Subject: Re: tabs to spaces
  • From: Scott Haneda <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:55:09 -0800

Thanks to all who are helping me on this, using your examples, I am working through understanding a lot more of this. I am a little stumped on AS list manipulation.

This is related to tabs to spaced, but more general list based questions.

Given input of a large string of data, basically, tab seperated, and return or newline seperated per line, where there very well may be spaces in the data in each word...

Something like this:

dasdaads	dasdas	 	dasdas		das
ds dsd		dasd	 	dsad		dd ds

Lets call the above data my_data

set lines to {}
set lines to paragraphs of my_data
So, that will get me a list where each line is a list element?
Something like this: {line1, line2} ?

If I then wanted to iterate though the lines and convert each tab seperated chunk to a list as well
repeat with a_line in lines
-- What do i do here?
-- I think this is it, but it is not working well for me
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tab
set cells to text items of a_line
set text item delimiters to ""
end repeat


And there is where I am stuck, what I would love, is a nice list back:
{ {"dasdaads", "dasdas", "dasdas", "das"},
  {"ds dsd", "dasd", "dsad", "dd ds"} }	

Just before the creation of that list, I would be able to apply stringPadRight() to each cell word, and get them all the same length.

From there, is there a way to split() in AS, or suggestion on simply way to go back to \r separated lines, with a single space between each item of the words in the list.

Also, is there way to return the clipboard with a style attribute, such as setting it to Monaco?

Thanks for all the help, still working through a lot of the examples that many of you posted, thank you.
--
Scott


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