On Dec 09, 2010, at 01:14, Maurizio Gennaro Cataldo wrote:
> I really do not figure out how to implement a sorting task which involves
> items inside a line of text. I know that BBEdit is able to sort lines but
> what I need is something different.
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Hey Maurizio,
Matt's Perl snippet is quite neat. Here's a way to do it with Applescript, but
it requires the Satimage.osax.
Note that the SIO's 'splittext' command can use regex, so it would be easy to
case for a missed space: "word1,word2".
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Chris
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# Change Handler — Satimage.osax — 2010-09-25
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on cng(findText, changeText, textSource)
change findText into changeText in textSource ¬
with regexp without case sensitive
end cng
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tell application "BBEdit"
try
tell front text window
set lineNum to startLine of selection
set bbLineData to contents of line lineNum
set splitLine to splittext bbLineData using ", "
set splitLine to cng("(^\\d+)(.+)", "\\2•\\1",
splitLine) of me
set splitLine to sortlist splitLine comparison 1
set splitLine to cng("(^.+)•(\\d+)", "\\2\\1",
splitLine) of me
set splitLine to join splitLine using ", "
set contents of line lineNum to splitLine
end tell
on error errMsg number errNum
beep
tell me to display dialog "Error: " & errMsg & return & "Error
Number: " & errNum
end try
end tell
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