In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Stone) wrote:
> I used to use the RegEx osax for a huge number of tasks, but it hasn't been > ported to X nor will it ever be. > > So, that being the case I have to break down and learn Perl... :) > > This rank newbie needs a template for using perl grep from AppleScript. FWIW: you use grep in perl to loop over the elements of a list, performing some action (usually matching) against each one, and returning the ones that match. So you probably don't mean "grep" here. > What I want to do is provide input from an AppleScript variable; grab the > pattern I want with perl; and output to an AppleScript variable. do shell script "perl -e '$x = shift; $x =~ /(.pat.)/; print $1' spatter" > "spatt" Hope that helps, -- Chris Nandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://osdn.com/
