Thanks Jim.
I was searching a single file for multiple instances of a pattern and
wanted the matches returned as strings. As it is a single file, I had
not included the {list} brackets. This is not the behaviour I remember
from six months ago.
My app works now, I just have to figure out other supposedly simple
aspects that are rendered obscure by Apple's inattention.
2008/10/29 Jim Correia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Oct 24, 2008, at 9:57 PM, Whiterock wrote:
>
>> I am surprised this has not been fixed but I guess Applescript has low
>> priority.
>
> AppleScript is an important feature in BBEdit. This has not been fixed
> because it isn't broken.
>
>> "Returning results:true" does not trigger "find" to issue a list of
>> found matches. BBEdit continues to act as if "false" was requested.
>
> `returning results: true` indicates to the "find" verb that it should
> return any result it has. What it will not do is change the "find"
> commands behavior from iterative to batch.
>
> What follows is an important, but subtle (and sometimes confusing)
> point. I've logged a bug so that we can better document this in the
> future, and provide examples.
>
> There is a single "find" command which can work in both iterative and
> batch "modes". It will do a batch find instead of an iterative find
> based on the search targets and how they are expressed.
>
> If you want a batch find, the best way to guarantee that is to specify
> your search targets as a list.
>
> For example:
>
> find thePattern searching in {fileRef} options ...
>
> Once you do that, `returning results: true` will return the results to
> your script.
>
>> The result of find in nor class "record" instead of "list of list" as
>> it was before but it is still not of type "Search Match"
>
> This is simply an artifact of AppleScript. (See commands in the
> Standard Additions, provided by Apple, which act the same way.)
>
> A record is returned. The terminology declares the return type as
> Search Match so that you can see what fields are available in the
> record which will be returned. The actual return type will be a
> record. It shouldn't be necessary to do type introspection at runtime
> - just use the result.
>
> Jim
>
> >
>
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