Re: Filter Paragraphs
Re: Filter Paragraphs
- Subject: Re: Filter Paragraphs
- From: Ben Waldie <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:08:01 -0400
Gavin,
On Oct 27, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Gavin Stone wrote:
I‘ve been trying to get “Filter Paragraphs” to work, to no avail. I
have Automator open a text file and filter paragraphs that that
begin with the word “test”. I would like it to pass that filtered
information to a new text document, but I get an error.
How does the Filter Paragraphs action work? The description is too
simple and doesn’t offer any real advice. Also, the built-in help
doesn’t describe the action at all.
I'd need to get a better understanding of your workflow to offer more
concrete input. But, to read paragraphs from a file, filter them, and
add them to a new text document, your workflow might look something
like this...
* Get Specified Finder Items - Or similar action to get the text file.
* Combine Text Files - This action is supposed to be for combining the
contents of two text files, but if only one is received as input, then
it will read its contents and pass it as output. Another option is to
open the file in TextEdit, using the "Open Finder Items" action, and
then retrieve the contents of the file with the "Get Contents of
TextEdit Document" action. Yet another option is to use a third party
action, such as my "Read Text File" action <http://www.automatedworkflows.com/software/automator_actions.html
>.
* Filter Paragraphs - Receives the extracted text, filters for the
specified criteria, and passes the results as output.
* New TextEdit Document - Creates a document in TextEdit, containing
the matching paragraphs received as input.
Hope this makes sense.
-Ben
Ben Waldie
President
Automated Workflows, LLC
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