Well, at least I got you on the right track!
I agree, offset is wonky; I was just being quick and dirty. Your version,
with a few tweaks to generalize it, could make a nice "between" handler.
On or near 6/11/01 9:13 PM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> Yes, but i hate 'offset' with a vengeance and never use it myself. Too many
> possibilities of mistakes (another instance of a ">" sign would muck this up.)
> Also, someone could be sending an email without using a display name. Then you
> don't usually get the "< >" sign at all. Although, sometimes you do, but there
> would be no spaces left, because I'd removed them. Also, TIDs are a lot faster
> (not that it matters here).
>
> I would do (after all the other text parsing);
>
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"<"}
> try
> set dName to text item 1 of nameLine
> try
> set dName to text 1 thru �2 of dName
> on error � no name, but < > around email addrtess
> set dName to ""
> end try
> set eAddress to text item 2 of nameLine -- may error if no email
> address
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {">"}
> set eAddress to text item 1 of eAddress
> on error
> if nameLine contains "@" and nameLine does not contain " "
> set dName to ""
> set eAddress to nameLine
> else
> set dName to nameLine
> set eAddress to address of sender of theMsg
> end if
> end try
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
> set display name of sender of theMsg to dName
> set address of sender of theMsg to eAddress
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