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  • Subject: Re: collectdata
  • From: Julien Battist <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 13:05:53 +0100
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Thank you Shane* and everybody whom contributed to my question...
 
The basics have been made for further development of the full script.
I have learned and it seems a necessarity to go beyond plain applescript to get things done :)
 
Again many thanks for your fast response and proposed solutions.
julien
 
 
 
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 12:43 AM
From: "Shane Stanley" <email@hidden>
To: "AS users" <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: collectdata
On 14 Mar 2017, at 2:24 am, Julien Battist <email@hidden> wrote:
 
Hi Shane, first of all this looks pretty stable and returns are colored nicely. Many thanks for this code which is still hard to read for me :)
 
It's obviously harder to read than plain AppleScript, but it does have the benefit of doing the job. And as far as I can see, there's still no viable alternative in the general case.
 
Coming back on regular expressions I would appreciate some feedback on the following.
In indesign I can grab data in a 'cell of a kolom' using a regular _expression_ where the first 5 characters are unique and the rest is grabbed being data in the same cell.
 
In a pdf this is separated with a space or a tab or even with nothing.
 
So what I want to grab is the following in bold: 
ABCD-123abc
Some text ABCD-abc234 some other text
ABCD-76y65yj90
ABCD-76yABC90 some text ABCD-code6547AA
----
 
ABCD- is fixed the rest can be random. What would be the right regular _expression_ for this?
There are plenty here more at home with regular expressions than me, but I think what you're after is:
 
set {theRegex, theError} to current application's NSRegularExpression's regularExpressionWithPattern:"ABCD-[ \\t]?\\S+" options:0 |error|:(reference)
 
That's ABCD- followed by nought or one spaces or tabs, followed by a string of non-space characters.
 
The thing you need to keep in mind is that it will also find "ABCD-123" in "XYZABCD-123". That might only be a theoretical concern given your data, but you could also specify that the pattern not be preceded by other than a space character, like this:
 
set {theRegex, theError} to current application's NSRegularExpression's regularExpressionWithPattern:"(?<!\\S)ABCD-[ \\t]?\\S+" options:0 |error|:(reference)
 
-- 
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>
 

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 >Re: collectdata (From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>)
 >Re: collectdata (From: Thomas Fischer <email@hidden>)
 >Re: collectdata (From: Julien Battist <email@hidden>)
 >Re: collectdata (From: Yvan KOENIG <email@hidden>)
 >Re: collectdata (From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>)
 >Re: collectdata (From: Thomas Fischer <email@hidden>)
 >Re: collectdata (From: Julien Battist <email@hidden>)
 >Re: collectdata (From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>)
 >Re: collectdata (From: Thomas Fischer <email@hidden>)
 >Re: collectdata (From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>)
 >Re: collectdata (From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>)
 >Re: collectdata (From: Julien Battist <email@hidden>)
 >Re: collectdata (From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>)

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