I think it is going to be easy. tell application "BBEdit" set the_text to the selection set my_line to line 1 of the_text end tell
Not "paragraph 1." Line 1. Took a long time to trial-and-error that over here. c On Jun 22, 2011, at 8:52 AM, Warren Michelsen wrote: > This ought to be very easy. I have html documents containing tables. No > colspan or rowspan properties are used so each table row has the same number > of columns. > > The documents are formatted such that each table row is one line in the > document; the line starts with "<tr> and ends with "</tr> so that a complete > row can be selected by selecting a complete line. > > Now then, I seem to be having a problem using AS to select the first line of > a document's selection. I've tried all kinds of things up to: > > set my_line to paragraph 1 of the selection of text document 1 of text > window 1 > > I keep getting the error: "An attempt was made to resolve an Apple Event > reference to a non-existent object." > > How does one set a variable to the first line of the selected text of the > front-most BBEdit document window? > > All I want to do is get the characters of that first line and count the > instances of "<td" to determine how many columns the selected table has. > > I thought this was going to be easy... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> > If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, > please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. > Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> -- Christian Boyce Christian Boyce and Associates Mac, iPhone, and iPad Consultants 310-452-3720 Read the Boyce Blog: http://christianboyce.blogspot.com Follow us on Twitter! http://twitter.com/christianboyce Be a fan on Facebook! http://tinyurl.com/cboyce-and-associates-facebook Now Playing on The Boyce Blog: Search Google Images by COLOR -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
