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Record Classes

match info record -- A record describing the matched text. Returned by the search command when the 'finding match info' option is used.

Properties:

• text (r/o) Unicode text -- The matched text.

• text range (r/o) list of integer -- The beginning and end indexes of the match.

So I put together a test script to try out a handler that would return a list with item 1 as the author name and item 2 as the title.

I'm stuck where I get the record back from the search command in the handler.

set TitleText to "<title>Author: Title of article</title>"

set A_T to my GetAuthorTitle(TitleText)

set author to item 1 of A_T

set title to item 2 of A_T

display dialog author & return & title -- debug

on GetAuthorTitle(TitleText)

set x to TitleText

tell application "TextCommands"

set author to ""

set title to ""

set x to search x for "<title>" replacing with ""

set x to search x for "</title>" replacing with ""

set y to search x for ":" finding match info

set coords to text range of y -- this should be a list

-- author and title to be filled in here

return {author, title}

end tell

end GetAuthorTitle

When I run this with event logging on, I get this as a record:

{{text range:{7, 7}, text:":"}}

and this as an error

"Can't get |text range| of {{text range:{7, 7}, text:\":\"}}."

So, my question is, how do I return the text range list pair into a variable?

TIA,

Jim