On Dec 28, 2010, at 18:39, Lazeez wrote:
> I need the number returned in theCount. It worked correctly in 9.6.1. Am I
> missing some sort of syntax error that I made? or is this a bug in 9.6.2?
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Hey There,
I don't remember that working in previous versions. In fact I was quite
disappointed to discover that you couldn't find all-matches in the front text
window.
>From the BBEdit Dictionary:
'found matches' 'get' 'list of Result Entry' 'for a multi-file or batch
search, a list of the found occurrences'
This works fine with 9.6.1 and 9.6.2 (batch-find):
set f to alias "Thor:Users:chris:test_directory:thegeekstuff:"
tell application "BBEdit"
set checkSearch to {search mode:literal, returning results:true, starting at
top:true, showing results:false}
set num_search to (find "Chris" searching in f options checkSearch)
if found of num_search then
set found_instances to found matches of num_search
set theCount to count found_instances
end if
end tell
On my system both BBEdit versions fail silently if nothing is found, because
that's how the script is written. Both versions also throw the same error when
something *is found* in the text of a text window, because only one item *cam*
be found and there is *no* 'found matches' record.
The found record looks like this:
{
found:true,
found object:characters 415 thru 421 of text document 1 of application
"BBEdit",
found text:"Chapter"
}
(Prettified by Script Debugger)
Personally I'd be very glad if there were first-match and all-matches flags in
the options (for working with an open text window).
For this sort of search I currently resort to the Satimage.osax:
tell application "BBEdit"
set srcData to text of text window 1
end tell
set searchString to "Chapter.*"
set textToSearch to srcData
set theResult to find text searchString ¬
in textToSearch ¬
case sensitive false ¬
regexp true ¬
whole word false ¬
all occurrences true ¬
without string result
--> Result:
{
{
matchPos:414,
matchLen:9,
matchResult:"Chapter 1"
},
{
matchPos:839,
matchLen:9,
matchResult:"Chapter 2"
}
}
Or with a switch you can get a simpler result:
--> Result:
{
"Chapter 1",
"Chapter 2"
}
--
Chris
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