Using AppleScript to find and set an AS variable collects TMI (too much
information)
Hello!
I create many text documents in BBEdit every day, and I have to extract and
send these variables over to Keyboard Maestro to paste in a web form. These
documents start like this:
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08:30-11:30 UWA
:: Item one
- the associated notes
:: Item two
- etc
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I need to pull out variables:
StartTime: 08:30
EndTime: 11:30
ClientCode: UWA
I've been working with the following script:
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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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Running it, I keep getting the error:
"Can’t make characters 1 thru 5 of text document id 220 of application
"BBEdit" into the expected type."
Script Debugger tells me that variable StartTime has these three properties:
found: true
found object: characters 1 thru 5 of text document id 220
found text: "08:30"
So I'm getting the right found text "08:30" (and I'm getting the correct
EndTime and Client Code), but there is a type mismatch when trying to get
08:30 over to a variable TicketTimeEntryBegin in Keyboard Maestro.
Now, when I use the following Execute AppleScript step in Keyboard Maestro
to try to see what's going on:
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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
And Keybard Maestro action: Save to variable: TicketTimeEntryBegin
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the variable TicketTimeEntryBegin in Keyboard Maestro now contains:
found:true, found object:characters 1 thru 5 of text document id 220, found
text:08:30
So it is getting the three properties of the variable mashed together.
How do I just get the found text 08:30, and not the rest?
Thanks!
- eric
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