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Re: How to Do This Without Smile or Satimage


  • Subject: Re: How to Do This Without Smile or Satimage
  • From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:23:35 +0100

Le 28 févr. 2012 à 11:40, Rick Gordon a écrit :

> I'm looking for a way to implement regex operations to a string or variable without using Smile, Satimage, or some other external resource. I'm thinking that there must be a way to formulate this as a shell command (using perl -e, sed, or something), but what I'm finding seems to be that those things would be operating on a file, and I just want to act on passed strings (within the context of a repeat loop on targeted objects).
>
> tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"
>  tell applied paragraph style
>    set vParaStyleNameIn to name as string
>    tell application "Smile"
>      set vParaStyleNameOut to uchange "indent" into "flush" in vParaStyleNameIn ¬
>        with regexp without case sensitive
>    end tell
>  end tell
> end tell
>
> It seems so simple; there must be a way.

Hello Rick,

Still wondering why Shane's initial sugestion hasn't made its way... For example:

	on uchange(InputText, Match, ChangeTo)
		local TIDs, OutputText
		set TIDs to AppleScript's text item delimiters
		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {Match}
		set OutputText to text items of InputText
		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {ChangeTo}
		set OutputText to OutputText as text
		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to TIDs
		return OutputText
	end uchange

	uchange("To indent this one", "indent", "flush")
	--> "To flush this one"

Do you have special requirements needing to resort to "do shell script"?

Axel


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