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Re: Newbie Question - Replacing spaces with underscores
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Re: Newbie Question - Replacing spaces with underscores


  • Subject: Re: Newbie Question - Replacing spaces with underscores
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:54:52 -0500

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Luther Fuller <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2010, at 9:04 AM, Josh Tishhouse wrote:
> What's the best way to convert that, and set it as a new variable?
>
> Here's how ...
> set textVar to "Text With Spaces"
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {space}
> set itemList to (text items of textVar) as list
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"_"}
> set textVar to (itemList as text)

Except Josh wanted to create a new variable with the underscore
version, not replace the original text.

To do that, just use a different name than "textVar" in the last "set"
statement.  You can pick any variable name; the "set" statement will
create it.

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Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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