Re: Text and Offset Peculiarities ???
Re: Text and Offset Peculiarities ???
- Subject: Re: Text and Offset Peculiarities ???
- From: Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:10:15 -0400
On May 15, 2011, at 2:20 PM, KOENIG Yvan wrote:
>
> Le 15 mai 2011 à 20:12, Deivy Petrescu a écrit :
>
>>
>>
>> On May 15, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Michael D Mays wrote:
>>
>>> I have this script
>>>
>>> tell application "Safari"
>>> set myText to the text of document 1
>>> set myOffset to offset of " Departing 0" in myText
>>> set myAscii to ASCII number (text (myOffset - 1) of myText)
>>> set myOffset to offset of (ASCII character myAscii) & " Departing 0" in myText
>>> end tell
>>>
>>> The first offset command finds a match >1 but I run it the result (second offset command) is 0 ???
>>>
>>> ASCII character myAscii is 63. When I look at myText in the replies pane of AppleScript Editor what I see is
>>> /n Departing
>>> If I say
>>> set myOffset to offset of "/n Departing 0" in myText
>>> the result is 0.
>>>
>>> Any ideas as to what is happening or what I am doing wrong?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Michael
>>
>> Michael,
>> "\n" is a return character. Its ascii number is 10.
>>
>> So try
>> set myOffset to offset of (ASCII character myAscii) & (ASCII character 10) &" Departing 0" in myText
>>
>> adjust for spaces if necessary
>> If you want you can go to preferences and turn off the "Escape tabs and line breaks in strings" in the Edit tab.
>
> Hello Deivy
>
> The OP wrote that the script returned myAscii with the value 63 which means a question mark.
> This is why in my test I inserted a question mark just before the searched string.
>
> I don't understand how the "/n" may appear in such a case.
>
> Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) 15 mai 2011 20:20:26
>
Hi Yvan,
the op wrote : (text (myOffset - 1) of myText
see the -1, it takes not the last but the penultimate character of the sentence.
The last character is the return… or \n.
Deivy Petrescu
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