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Re: Formatting Text When Responding to a Dialog Box

Subject: Re: Formatting Text When Responding to a Dialog Box
From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:49:37 -0700

On Jan 25, 2012, at 11:12 AM, Robert W. Young wrote:

Is it possible to do what I want, and if so how?

set theText to text returned of (display dialog "What address do you want to display? (please enter a dollar sign after the street)" default answer "")

set text item delimiters to "$"

set theText to text items of theText

set text item delimiters to return

set theText to theText as text

display dialog theText

-- Michelle

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