OK, something simpler. Scripting. Finding parts of a document and
noting their positions.
if I run --
tell application "BBEdit"
find Some_Literal searching in text document 1 options {search
mode:literal, starting at top:true} with selecting match
end tell
-- afterward the sought text is selected, and the result of the find
includes the "found object" reference value, like:
found object:characters 9774 thru 9798 of text document 1 of
application "BBEdit"
Or, if I just ask BBEdit for "the selection" it will give me the same
kind of reference (characters 9774 thru 9798 of text document 1 of
application "BBEdit")
The stupid problem I am having is that I want to capture that number
(9774) and use it later -- but I can't find how to get Applescript to
give me access to the elements of a reference. Anything I do with
"found object of the result" gets me the referent value, the found
string. Like, asking for "word 2 of found object of the result" gets
me the second word of the found text itself. I understand WHY it
happens, but how do I get around it?
How does one get the character offset of the selection as a number,
for use later?
Thanks,
Dave Cortesi
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