On 26 May 2021, at 0:19, Duncan Thorne wrote:
You are all a helpful bunch but I'm still sinking! I looked at the
manual
and it addles my brain. Grep, zero-width positions, etc. Yikes.
I think you'll find it simpler if you eliminate Grep from the process
and do a literal search. Try writing the "replace" operation in your
script as follows:
replace "2021\\n$" using "2021\\t$" options {search mode:literal, case
sensitive:false, starting at top:true}
("\n" and "\t" are backslash character escapes for line break and tab,
respectively. The AppleScript editor will compile these into literal
characters, so to avoid this we add an extra backslash. If you don't do
that, the operation will still work, but the script is a little harder
to read.)
R.
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