Hi Eric
Yes Michelle’s solution worked, but
I need to take a step further.
I had tried
Write text items cnt thru itemcnt of aword
to outfile
Cnt – position it locates “6000[F]This”
Itemcnt – set itemcnt to number of
text items in aword
I get error message “can’t get
text items 3 to 85 of “ffcco yh56 6000[F]this………………”
Ruby
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric C Saunders
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Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 3:27
PM
To:
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Cc: Script2
Subject: RE: Simple text question
Look at Michelle's answer to your question. Based on
her answer, I would write:
return text items 3 thru 6 of aword
If
you continue to us "word of", AppleScript will continue to return
"word of".
If
you use "text item of" then AppleScript will return "text item
of".
In
your case, "word of" seems to be an inappropriate term, and Michelle
offered the correct term -- text item of.
She
REALLY knows what she is doing, and has posted MANY helpful answers on this
forum.
Eric
On
07/07/2008 02:08:04 PM Script2 wrote:
> Any Suggestions as to how I can write word 3
thru 6 of aword to a file
> without loosing special characters.
>
> Ruby
>
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> On Behalf Of Michelle Steiner
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 1:48 PM
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> Subject: Re: Simple text question
>
> On Jul 7, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Script2 wrote:
>
> > Thanks Michelle
> >
> > This works.
> >
> > But when I try
> >
> > Set wordcnt to number of words in aword
> > Set newword to word cnt thru wordcnt of
aword - it ignore the "[]"
> > and "()"
> >
> > Cnt is a counter - which word contains
"[F]"
>
> That's because, as I said, non alphanumerics
are not words, nor part
> of words.
>
> -- Michelle
>
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