Thanks for your help Paul. I have the script up and running and it seems to be working well so far.
on run
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set currentMessages to the current messages
repeat with theMsg in the currentMessages
set theSubject to subject of theMsg
if theSubject contains "Re:" then
set sd to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"Re: "} -- or ("Re:"}
set ls to text items of theSubject
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
set subject of theMsg to (ls as Unicode text)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to sd
end if
end repeat
end tell
end run
It slows you down to be resetting tids to sd every single repeat loop - and totally unnecessary. Aside from the fact that you should almost certainly leave them as {""} when you finish anyway, so this is just unnecessary fluff, if you insist on including it put the two sd lines outside the repeat loop, but inside the tell block. If there's any chance you might be running this on a large folder with a very large number of messages you'll speed it up a lot by including 'my' in the repeat statement:
on run
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set sd to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set currentMessages to the current messages
repeat with theMsg in my currentMessages
set theSubject to subject of theMsg
if theSubject contains "Re:" then
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"Re: "} -- or ("Re:"}
set ls to text items of theSubject
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
set subject of theMsg to (ls as Unicode text)
end if
end repeat
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to sd
end tell
end run
But you don't need the sd lines at all. Always set tids before you coerce a list to text, in every script, and you'll be fine. Just in case someone forgot to, in another script, it's best to find that out. Or if you want to include a corrective to someone else's faulty script, then leave them at {""}, as I did - which I did on purpose.
--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>
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