Re: linebreak in a shell script; was Re: What's wrong with this call to zip?
Re: linebreak in a shell script; was Re: What's wrong with this call to zip?
- Subject: Re: linebreak in a shell script; was Re: What's wrong with this call to zip?
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:56:48 +1100
- Thread-topic: linebreak in a shell script; was Re: What's wrong with this call to zip?
On 1/3/08 9:28 AM, "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Ah, but an AppleScript programmer is not an end user. An Applescript
> programmer is, in fact, a programmer, who belongs on the other end of
> that transaction. There's a difference between a user asking for the
> length of a word and a programmer trying to extract substrings to do
> text manipulation.
Putting aside the case of CRLF for the moment, I suspect the ability to
count characters from a user perspective is much more useful to most
AppleScript scripters than the ability to split grapheme clusters.
--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
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