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Le 16 mai 2011 à 02:10, Deivy Petrescu a écrit :

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.

References:
	>Text and Offset Peculiarities ??? (From: Michael D Mays <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Text and Offset Peculiarities ??? (From: Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Text and Offset Peculiarities ??? (From: KOENIG Yvan <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Text and Offset Peculiarities ??? (From: Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden>)