Re: Text and Offset Peculiarities ???
Re: Text and Offset Peculiarities ???
- Subject: Re: Text and Offset Peculiarities ???
- From: Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 09:00:22 -0400
On May 16, 2011, at 3:58 AM, Wayne Melrose wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
> text (myOffset -1) is the character just before the string " Departing 0"
> It's exactly what I did.
>
> Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) 16 mai 2011 09:42:44
Yvan,
I see what you are saying and may be you are right.
But as soon as I saw -1 and a "\n" I thought that the OP forgot that the last character of a line is a line feed (thanks Nigel) or return.
I thought that that was the problem.
Deivy Petrescu
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