Re: Using long lists in a script
Re: Using long lists in a script
- Subject: Re: Using long lists in a script
- From: Richard Rönnbäck <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:15:50 +0100
- Thread-topic: Using long lists in a script
There are at least three different shell tools that will do the work for
you, assuming that you have the two different lists saved in two separate
files with one word on each line, sorted alphabetically.
Have a look at the man pages for "diff", "join", and "comm". Personally I
would have gone for the latter, because it is simple to use and can give you
a very clean result.
You can also take a look at the free Scripting Addition "List and Records
tool" from www.latenightsw.com which have built-in functions to give you
what you want with one command. If you are running Snow Leopard you must
however understand how to work around the fact that this addition is 32-bit,
not 64.
rgds
// Richard
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> Hello,
>
> I have to compare selected text against long lists of words in 25 different
> text documents and find out which words in the selection are not in a list.
> Each document contains about 4,000 words. Here is my basic script:
>
> set list1 to {"man", "dog", "automobile"}--actual list(s) will be around 4,000
> words
> set list2 to {}
> set list3 to every word of (the clipboard)
> repeat with x from 1 to count of items of list3
> set n to item x of list3
> if n is not in list1 and n is not in list2 then
> set list2 to list2 & return & n
> end if
> end repeat
>
> I've searched the archives but can't find the answer to my question. What is
> the best way to get the words from those docs into my declared list(s)? Is
> there some way to use an external reference? A library, perhaps?
>
> Randy Lewis
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