Ah, I got it. I needed to set vTabLeader to found text of the find operation.
Rick Gordon
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On 7/20/12 at 1:43 AM -0700, Rick Gordon wrote in a message entitled
"BBEdit AppleScript Problem":
>I can't figure out why this AppleScript is not working. I'm trying to do the
>following:
>
>Starting with a selection of multiple lines, beginning at a line start and
>ending with a return, I want to:
>
>(1) shift the selection one increment to the right;
>
>(2) add an opening div tag before it, preceded but the number of tabs that
>preceded the first line of the selection before the shift;
>
>(3) add a closing dive tag after it, similarly tabbed.
>
>The script runs fine, and returns what I would expect, until the last action,
>the Replace line. But the replacement replaces all the text with two garbage
>characters.
>
>Several variants for addressing the target string are listed, but it's not
>working either way.
>
>Here's the script. Any help -- or an easier approach -- is welcome. Thanks.
>
>Rick Gordon
>
>--------
>
>set vOpeningTag to "<div class=\"keep\">" & return
>set vClosingTag to "</div>" & return
>
>tell application "BBEdit 10"
> set vSelection to selection
>
> tell vSelection
> set vTabLeader to (find "^ +" options {search mode:grep, showing
> results:false} searching in contents)
> shift direction right
> end tell
>
> set vSelection to selection
>
> tell vSelection
> set vStart to characterOffset
> set vEnd to characterOffset + length
> end tell
>
> set vOpeningTag to vTabLeader & vOpeningTag
> set vClosingTag to vTabLeader & vClosingTag
>
> tell document 1
> set vTarget to a reference to characters vStart thru vEnd
> -- OR set vTarget to characters vStart thru vEnd
>
> tell contents of vTarget
> -- OR tell vTarget
> replace "(?s)(.+)" using vOpeningTag & "\\1" & vClosingTag options
> {search mode:grep, showing results:false, extend selection:true}
> end tell
> end tell
>end tell
>
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>
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>EMERALD VALLEY GRAPHICS AND CONSULTING
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