Hello. Rookie AppleScripter here.
I need to grab some items from my many time entry text documents ever day.
They all start like this:
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08:30-11:30 UWA
:: Item one
- the associated notes
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I need to grab:
StartTime: 08:30
EndTime: 11:30
Client Code: UWA
I then need to pass these variables to Keyboard Maestro to paste into a web
form. But my attempts at just getting "08:30" for StartTime is grabbing
much more than just that text.
The beginning of my script is this:
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*set* StartTime *to* "00:00"
*set* EndTime *to* "00:00"
*set* ClientCode *to* "AAA"
*tell* *application* "BBEdit"
*set* StartTime *to* *find* "(\\A)([0-9]{2})(\\:)([0-9]{2})" searching in *text
document* 1 options {search mode:*grep*, wrap around:*true*} *with* selecting
match
*set* EndTime *to* *find* "([0-9]{2})(\\:)([0-9]{2})" searching in *text
document* 1 options {search mode:*grep*, wrap around:*false*} *with* selecting
match
*set* ClientCode *to* *find* "[A-Z]{3}" searching in *text document* 1
options {search mode:*grep*, wrap around:*false*} *with* selecting match
*end* *tell*
*tell* *application* "Keyboard Maestro Engine"
*setvariable* TicketTimeEntryBegin to StartTime
*end* *tell*
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Let's just focus on StartTime. Script Debugger tells me that the variable
StartTime is getting three found properties:
found: true
found object: characters 1 thru 5 of text document id 220
found text: "08:30"
So, Excellent! StartTime properly getting the correct text "08:30" (BTW -
I'm also getting the right text for EndTime and ClientCode.)
When it comes to sending that variable to Keyboard Maestro, I get an error:
"Can’t make characters 1 thru 5 of text document id 220 of application
"BBEdit" into the expected type."
When I test from a script action in Keyboard Maestro, I see that the script:
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tell application "BBEdit"
find "(\\A)([0-9]{2})(\\:)([0-9]{2})" searching in text document 1 options
{search mode:grep, wrap around:true} with selecting match
end tell
with Save to variable: TicketTimeEntryBegin
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is setting variable TicketTimeEntryBegin to:
found:true, found object:characters 1 thru 5 of text document id 220, found
text:08:30
But I just want "08:30" !!
Where am I going wrong?
I really don't know what
"with selecting match"
in the AppleScript Find command does - I just copied that from another
script somewhere. I do know that I don't get ANYTHING in my variable
StartTime without it.
So how do I just get
08:30
and not
found:true, found object:characters 1 thru 5 of text document id 220, found
text:08:30
Thank you!
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