Re: Find/replace
Re: Find/replace
- Subject: Re: Find/replace
- From: Tim Mansour <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:37:34 +1000
Robert, in your code I'm not sure what createList is doing but is your
intention to actually rename the files on disk, or are you merely
creating a list of file names with "illegal" characters removed? This
looks different to your OP about removing the first 5 characters.
It's often easier to post an entire script so we can see exactly what
you're trying to achieve.
2009/8/20 Robert Poland <email@hidden>:
> Hi,
> I appreciate the help everyone has offered.
> Here's the source of my confusion. A little flashback;
> My current script uses these elements;
> property searchStrings : {",", "'", " ", "&", "#", "__"}
> property replacementStrings : {"_", "", "_", "_and_", "_", "_"}
> ...
> on FindReplaceIllegalChar(droppedItems)
> tell application "Finder"
> set source_folder to droppedItems
> repeat with x from 1 to (get count of items in searchStrings)
> set search_string to (item x of searchStrings)
> set replacement_string to (item x of replacementStrings)
> my createList(source_folder)
> end repeat
> end tell
> end FindReplaceIllegalChar
> changing to:
> property searchStrings : {"^00[0-9]{2}_"}
> property replacementStrings : {""}
> Didn't seem to be the answer.
>
> On Aug 19, 2009, at 6:13 AM, Tim Mansour wrote:
>
> 2009/8/19 Robert Poland <email@hidden>:
>
> Apparently "fname regexp true" is important but I don't know how to add
>
> that.
>
> I probably didn't explain that well enough. Assuming you have the
> Satimage.osax scripting addition installed, you can use its "change"
> command to get rid of those first characters, which I assumed were in
> fact two zeros followed by 2 other digits followed by an underscore.
> So an entire script might look something like this:
>
> property searchString : "^00[0-9]{2}_"
> property replacementString : ""
>
> set file_path to (choose file) as text
> tell application "System Events"
> set file_info to (properties of file file_path)
> set name of file file_path to change searchString into
> replacementString in name of file_info with regexp
> end tell
>
> --
> Tim Mansour <email@hidden>
> Neologica Print & Promotions (ABN 63 904 335 408)
> Certified FileMaker 10 Developer
> 159 Commonwealth Street : Surry Hills NSW 2010 : Australia
> Mobile 0405 500 846 : Sydney 02 9043 3223 : Melbourne 03 9012 7441
>
>
> Bob Poland - Fort Collins, CO
>
>
>
--
Tim Mansour <email@hidden>
Neologica Print & Promotions (ABN 63 904 335 408)
Certified FileMaker 10 Developer
159 Commonwealth Street : Surry Hills NSW 2010 : Australia
Mobile 0405 500 846 : Sydney 02 9043 3223 : Melbourne 03 9012 7441
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