Re: Parsing out words in email subject
Re: Parsing out words in email subject
- Subject: Re: Parsing out words in email subject
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:25:35 -0600
It all depends on you knowing what the text delimiters are set to before you try this.
On Jan 28, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Thomas Fischer wrote:
> Yes, but
>
> set theSubject to "Re: Parsing out words in email subject"
> set theWord to first word of theSubject
> set allButFirst to words 2 thru -1 of theSubject as text
> display dialog allButFirst
>
> will also give you the correct result.
> It seems that words work here a little like text items with text item delimiters set to space.
> But there are some additional subtleties (try quotes), and the AppleScript Language Guide says:
> "Because the rules for parsing words are thus under user control, your scripts should not count on a deterministic text parsing of words."
>
> Cheers
> Thomas
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