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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Manipulating variables (Christopher Nebel)
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Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:51:20 -0800
From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Manipulating variables
To: Automator Users <email@hidden>
Cc: Emil Hedaya <email@hidden>
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On Dec 28, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Emil Hedaya wrote:
I have a script that extracts all of the links on a particular
page. I want to then take the results of this operation and do a
search/replace on all the urls that are returned and pass the
results to another action. I managed to figure out a hacky way that
involves exporting to a text document, then using a manually
recorded macro that presses command-f, types in the two strings,
then presses enter... Then reimports from the text document so I can
pass the result to the next action. But clearly this is a
ridiculous solution.
Is there a better way?
Well, you could spring the $5 for the TextEdit Action Pack <http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/texteditactionpack.html
, which includes a "find and replace in text" action.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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