I am coming back to MacPerl and this forum after quite a long break.
I would like to use macperl as a text parsing filter where OneClick acts as the
conduit and the action of macperl is transparent. I want to avoid application
switching, if possible.
Assuming I have captured some text in a OneClick variable -- how would I pass this
text as input to a macperl script and return the result to a OneClick/AppleScript
global?
Potential methods that I see:
1) use OneClick to write the text to a temporary file with a constant name. Run the
perl script which reads that file as input.
2) From AppleScript, use Do Script "MacPerl::Reply('myscript')". The text to be parsed
could be inserted in the script string in the special __DATA__ section. Is there a
limitation to the length of the perl script passed to the Do Script command?
thnx,
-- mpm
