Re: Textedit and word counting
Re: Textedit and word counting
- Subject: Re: Textedit and word counting
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:31:45 -0800
Thanks. I will work with this and see
if anyone one else has an answer. It is an odd problem.
Dan Burbank
Iridio - An R.R. Donnelley Company
5050 First Avenue S.
Seattle, WA 98134
t 206.826.3352
c 206.718.8655
www.iridio.com
| Brian Johnson <email@hidden>
01/27/08 05:15 PM
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Dan, There's no need to paste them into a new document, and there's no
need to twiddle the TIDs, just copy to the clipboard and run
display dialog("Words: " & (count words of (the clipboard))
)
Unfortunately, that doesn't answer the question as to why you'd start
getting the same answer after a while...
- B.Johnson (fellow Seattleite)
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, email@hidden wrote:
> I am trying to use a simple little Textedit script to count the number
of
> words in text documents so they can be posted. This script works most
of
> the time but it will eventually start to return the same number. I
am not
> sure how to clear the memory so it will generate the right number.
The way
> it is being used is to copy the content out of an email, into a text
> document, run the script and repeat. Can anyone see why this
eventually
> gets clogged up?
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> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
> tell application "TextEdit" to count words of document 1's
text
> display dialog "Number of words is " & result
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> Dan Burbank
> Iridio - An R.R. Donnelley Company
> 5050 First Avenue S.
> Seattle, WA 98134
> t 206.826.3352
> c 206.718.8655
> www.iridio.com
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