Re: TextEdit, delete all blank lines
Re: TextEdit, delete all blank lines
- Subject: Re: TextEdit, delete all blank lines
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 20:30:59 -0700
On 2009-05-09, at 20:08:14, Sutapalli Satyanarayana wrote:
Still the sed script or the Script sent by Axel Luttgens is not working.
I'm using OS X 10.5.6. Both the 'sed' script and Axel's AppleScript work fine on my machine. The AppleScript was insufferably slow. I tried the following modification (foregoing it's ability to detect lines containing only spaces and tabs). However, it is still insufferably slow:
script cozy_up tell application "TextEdit" to tell document 1 repeat with i from (count paragraphs) to 1 by -1 if ((count of characters of paragraph i) is 1) then delete paragraph i end if end repeat end tell end script run script cozy_up
On 9 May 2009, at 09:52, Axel Luttgens wrote:
Le 9 mai 09 à 08:13, Satyam Satyanarayana a écrit :
Hi, Is there a way using apple script to delete all the blank lines in the "rtf" file created by a TextEdit?
TextEdit's AppleScript implementation is rather basic; so, unless I missed the way to devise a clever whose clause, this seems to be a prototype of the way to go with TextEdit:
tell application "TextEdit"
tell text of document of front window
repeat with P from (count of paragraphs) to 1 by -1
if characters of paragraph P is {linefeed} then delete paragraph P
end repeat
end tell
end tell
I sent a couple of replies to this thread but they seem to have gone direct to Satyam, perhaps as a consequence of hijacking the original thread instead of starting a new one. Anyhow, tested on the command line the following works as a shell script: "sed '/^ *\\$/d' filename1 > filename2" so do shell script with the above should work. Has the advantage of preserving the original file. I am only just starting Apple Script but have done some shell scripting on Unix.
Philip Aker echo email@hidden@nl | tr a-z@. p-za-o.@ Democracy: Two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch.
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