Re: Basic Script Blues
Re: Basic Script Blues
- Subject: Re: Basic Script Blues
- From: Thomas Fischer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:44:14 +0100
I suppose it's a backslash (\) problem.
As Ed together with Emmanuel said:
> Ed means: backslash is an applescript escape character
What you have to do is escape the escape, i.e. double the backslash:
>>> set TheText to my SearchReplace(TheText, "equi\\ibration", "equilibration")
should do the job.
Thomas
Am 20.11.2009 um 08:42 schrieb ba95:
> Le 19 nov. 09 à 21:00, email@hidden a écrit :
>
>> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:42:45 -0800
>> From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
>
> Thanks a lot Ed.
>
>>
>>
>>> I often encounter the following OCR mistake: "equi/ibration" instead of
>> "equilibration".
>>
>>> The following line does not work ("equi/ibration" is not found)
>>
>>> set TheText to my SearchReplace(TheText, "equi/ibration", "equilibration")
>>
>> There's nothing about this handler call that would cause it to fail, so the
>> problem may be in the handler itself. Can you post the SearchReplace handler
>> that generates the error?
>
> Here it is
>
> --
> set TheText to the clipboard
>
> set TheText to my SearchReplace(TheText, "eqUI/l", "equili")
> -- Blah... Blah... (other SearchReplace operations)
>
> set the clipboard to TheText
>
> on SearchReplace(mainString, searchString, replaceString)
> set olddelis to AppleScript's text item delimiters
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to (searchString)
> set theList to (every text item of mainString)
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to (replaceString)
> set theString to theList as string
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to olddelis
> return theString
> end SearchReplace
> --
>
>>
>> Unless, is it possible that your OCR is returning a slash \ rather than a
>> backslash / ?
>>
>> A slash is an appleScript escape character and may be causing problems.
>
> The other SearchReplace operations do perform perfectly.
>
> I do not think so, but I will pay attention next time.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Best.
>
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