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Re: A Lookup Function?
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Re: A Lookup Function?


  • Subject: Re: A Lookup Function?
  • From: Bruce Robertson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:33:47 -0800

On Jan 24, 2011, at 10:15 AM, email@hidden wrote:

>
> On Jan 24, 2011, at 9:30am, Marconi wrote:
>
>> For example, I'd enter "email@hidden" and it would parse each character and pop up a window with the text:
>>
>> Mike Alpha Romeo Charlie Oscar November India at Mike Delta Charlie Charlie Lima X-ray X-ray Victor India dot Charlie Oscar Mike.
>>
>
> Here's a very simple way to do this in appleScript. May not be the most efficient, but it works.
> ----------------------
> property lookUpTable : ".	dot
> @	at
> 1 one
> 2	two
> 9	nine
> a	Alpha
> B	Bravo
> c	Charlie
> d	Delta
> i	India
> l	Lima
> m	Mike
> n	November
> o	Oscar
> r	Romeo
> v	Victor
> x	X-ray
> Z	Zulu
> "
> set sourceString to "email@hidden"
> set endString to {}
> set sourceString to items of sourceString
> repeat with thisKey in sourceString
> 	set the end of endString to LookUpData(thisKey)
> end repeat
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"-"}
> set endString to endString as text
>
> display alert endString
> on LookUpData(key)
> 	set oldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
> 	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {key & tab}
> 	try
> 		set dataForKey to paragraph 1 of text item 2 of lookUpTable
> 	on error
> 		set dataForKey to ""
> 	end try
>
> 	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims
> 	return dataForKey
> end LookUpData
> ----------------------

Might need a little work.

What if one of the keys is 1; and one of the keys is, for instance, 31?

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