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From: Peter Baxter <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:49:35 +1000

Thanks Christopher,

It was that easy. I tried something similar earlier, but had the syntax wrong.


On 03/09/2009, at 7:41 AM, Christopher Nebel wrote:

On Sep 2, 2009, at 3:11 AM, Peter Baxter wrote:
I have been using this script to create a comma delimited list that allocates teachers to their classes for import into a database. I am nearly there, however the resulting list has lots of quotation marks in it. Can someone please help me clean this up?

The result: {" ", "ADA", "SCI7B", "SCI7G", "SCF10B", " ", "AND", "IP7B", "DRA7G", "DRA7O", "IP8B", "ART8O", "ART8R", "ART9B", "COMP", " ", "BAP", "MUS7B", "MUS8B", "MUS8G", "MUS9A", "2ND", " ", " ", "BAS", "FRE7B", "FRE7G", "FRE7O", "FORM8B", "FRE8B", "HUM8G", "FRE8R", "2ND", " ", "BRE", "CAR10A", "CAR10B", "CAR10C", " ", "BRP", "MAT9G", "NUM9A", "2ND", "
What I would like:
{ADA, SCI7B, SCI7G, SCF10B,
AND, IP7B, DRA7G, DRA7O, IP8B, ART8O, ART8R, ART9B, COMP,
BAP, MUS7B, MUS8B, MUS8G, MUS9A, 2ND,
BAS, FRE7B, FRE7G, FRE7O, FORM8B, FRE8B, HUM8G, FRE8R, 2ND,
BRE, CAR10A, CAR10B, CAR10C,
BRP, MAT9G, NUM9A, 2ND, …...
I don't think there's actually anything to clean up. AppleScript Editor's result pane shows you the result in "source" form, such that you could paste it back into a script and compile it. You've got a list of strings, hence each string has quotation marks around it because that's the syntax for a string literal in AppleScript. The quotes aren't actually part of the strings, that's just how they're displayed.

If you want to turn the list of strings into one big string with commas separating the items, then you can do this:
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ", "
	set myBigString to myWords as text
Exactly what you do depends on how you plan to use "myWords" -- put it in the clipboard, write it to a file, etc.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
PS: If you're using "read" to simply read the entire file, you don't need to open and close it; just a plain "read" command will do:
	set fileRef to open for access includedFile
	set includedlist to read fileRef
	close includedFile
is equivalent to...
	set includedlist to read includedFile


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