It works! Also, much tidier. Thanks Rich for that, and to everyone else for all the hand holding. I can't thank you enough.
On Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 7:12:21 AM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: > 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. > > -- > Rich Siegel Bare Bones Software, Inc. > <[email protected]> <https://www.barebones.com/> > > Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they sedate me. > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/8249aeb1-5193-447a-896e-75997ded75d9n%40googlegroups.com.
