Re: [MacPerl] Calling a Perl script from AppleScript

2001-06-12 Thread Katherine Richmond
Hi all - I'd like to thank everyone for your help with my Perl and AppleScript project. I have decided to write the entire script in Perl. I am having a problem with readdir returning a list of all files. The invisible files (I'm assuming) are giving me an error. How do I not use the invisible fil

Re: [MacPerl] Calling a Perl script from AppleScript

2001-06-11 Thread Paul McCann
Hi Kathy, > I'm very new at this. I know some Perl and barely any AppleScript. I would > like to improve an AppleScript that parses a large text file ( > 500k) and > re-writes it to another file so that it can be imported into a FileMaker > database. I would like to call a perl script to do the p

Re: [MacPerl] Calling a Perl script from AppleScript

2001-06-11 Thread Chris Nandor
At 18:57 -0400 2001.06.11, Katherine Richmond wrote: >like to call a perl script to do the parsing part. Do you think perl will be >faster than applescript at parsing large files? Absolutely. >don't know how much to ask Perl to do. Should I open/create/move files in the >AppleScript and let Perl

[MacPerl] Calling a Perl script from AppleScript

2001-06-11 Thread Katherine Richmond
Hi Everyone, I'm very new at this. I know some Perl and barely any AppleScript. I would like to improve an AppleScript that parses a large text file ( > 500k) and re-writes it to another file so that it can be imported into a FileMaker database. I would like to call a perl script to do the parsin