Re: Opening and reading a text file

Subject: Re: Opening and reading a text file
From: "koenig.yvan" <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:14:35 +0100

Le 28/01/2013 à 23:41, Ed Rush <email@hidden> a écrit :

I'm trying to open an existing text file, add some HTML code, and write the result to replace a pre-existing second file, but I keep getting an end-of-file error right off the bat:

tell application "TextWrangler"
activate

set sourceFile to (choose file with prompt "Choose the ... text file:")
set targetFile to (choose file with prompt "Choose the ... HTML file:")

set introText to "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC ...(lots of header code)"

--read the books list
set booksList to read sourceFile as Unicode text using delimiter return
close access sourceFile

... <loop to do the deed, etc.>
end tell --"TextWrangler"

I'm trying to open an existing text file, add some HTML code, and write the result to replace a pre-existing second file. I've tried it with the surrounding "tell" set to TextEdit, TextWrangler, Finder, and nothing. Regardless, I get this:

Hello

As you are using TextWrangler, why not ask it to grab the document's contents ?

This simple code does the job.

(*set sourceFile to (choose file with prompt "Choose the ... text file:")

set targetFile to (choose file with prompt "Choose the ... HTML file:")

set introText to "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC ...(lots of header code)"

set sourceFile to (path to desktop as text) & " à ranger:excel filetypes.txt" as alias

tell application "TextWrangler"

# read the books list

open sourceFile

# set booksList to contents of document 1

set booksList to paragraphs of (get contents of document 1)

close document 1

end tell --"TextWrangler"

# <loop to do the deed, etc.>

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 29 janvier 2013 15:14:06

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