Apple

set myShellString to "ls -tl " & (quoted form of POSIX path of myFolder) & " | grep '^d'"

set myShellResults to do shell script myShellString as string

log myShellResults

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "

set myWords to number of text items in paragraph 1 of myShellResults

log myWords

repeat with myWordIndex from 1 to myWords

log text item myWordIndex of paragraph 1 of myShellResults

end repeat

display dialog "yo"

drwxr-xr-x 12 zav admin 408 Jul 3 2009 c_prompt_zip_code*)

(*17*)

(*drwxr-xr-x*)

(**)

(*12*)

(*zav*)

(**)

(*admin*)

(**)

(*408*)

(*Jan*)

(**)

(*2*)

(*17:40*)

(*sd*)

(*caller_id_alert_icon*)

end tell

tell application "AppleScript Editor"
display dialog "yo"

--> error number -128

Result:

error "User canceled." number -128

On Mar 29, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:

It doesn't suck; you are simply not understanding the explanations.

In AppleScript, "text items" are not "words". Two different things.
In particular, words are delimited by what AppleScript says they're
delimited by. Always. You have no control over how a string breaks
into words.

However, you do have control over how it breaks into text items, by
dint of setting text item delimiters.

If you want to split a string into words based on standard conventions
(space and punctuation), use words. If you want control over exactly
how it's split, use text items. Which means you ask for "text items
of (stringHere)", not "words of (stringHere)".

--
Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>

References:
	>Re: (resend) (From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>)
	>Re: (resend) (From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>)
	>Re: (resend) (From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>)