Re: TID & text items issue
Re: TID & text items issue
- Subject: Re: TID & text items issue
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:32:38 -0400
- Thread-topic: TID & text items issue
On 10/22/12 7:07 PM, "Shane Stanley" <email@hidden> wrote:
>On 23/10/2012, at 9:38 AM, John C. Welch <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>>I have a string:
>>" 8 0 0xffffff7f81592000 0x41000 0x41000
>>com.apple.kec.corecrypto (1.0) "
>>I want to strip out the stuff that isn't spaces. Should be easy. Set TIDs
>>to " ", and get every text item. The problem is, I get a listing for the
>>delimiters too, and then I'm in repeat hell.
>>I could SWEAR this used to work better, as in the delimiters didn't get
>>in
>>the list, just the stuff that wasn't delimiters.
>
>It's always worked that way. You can get close to what you want by using
>multiple delimiters:
>
>set x to " 8 0 0xffffff7f81592000 0x41000 0x41000
>com.apple.kec.corecrypto (1.0) "
>set saveTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters
>set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {" ", " ", " ", " "} --
>from most to least order
>set y to text items of x
>set AppleScript's text item delimiters to saveTID
>--> {"", "8", "0", "0xffffff7f81592000", "0x41000", "0x41000",
>"com.apple.kec.corecrypto", "(1.0)", ""}
>
>That still leaves the potential leading and trailing empty string.
that did it! I can just grunt with rest and reverse to strip the trailing
stuff, since that's nicely consistent. Thanks man, I'd have never thought
of that!
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