I had a problem running it inside of studio applications, by putting  
it in a finder tell it smoothes out some rough spots.

On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:08 PM, Paul Skinner wrote:

> Mark,
>
> 	I'm just curious why you tell the finder to do this? I use the  
> same method, but without the Finder tell. Is there something I  
> don't know?
>
>
> On Oct 20, 2006, at 4:34 PM, Mark Lively wrote:
>
>> What I use a *LOT* is
>>
>> on tidreplace(sometext, intext, outtext)
>> 	tell application "Finder"
>> 		set tid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
>> 		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to intext
>> 		set sometext to every text item of sometext
>> 		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to outtext
>> 		set sometext to sometext as text
>> 		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tid
>> 	end tell
>> 	return sometext
>> end tidreplace
>>
>> I have it in a library even.  It only does case sensitive replaces  
>> so its not perfect.
>>
>> Another option you may want to consider is using sed through do  
>> shell script.
>>
>>
>> On Oct 20, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Eric Schult wrote:
>>
>>> I've been using ACME Script Widgets' "ACME Replace" command for  
>>> so long I=
>>>
>>> barely remember how to search and replace strings within strings  
>>> in vanil=
>>> la
>>> AS. However, I find myself needing to do that, because my ACME  
>>> Replace
>>> commands are hanging in some of my newer scripts in OS 10.3.8.  
>>> (They neve=
>>> r
>>> error out; the script just never finishes running, and then  
>>> script editor=
>>>
>>> crashes.)
>>>
>>> I've just written a vanilla AS variation that works, but I'm  
>>> worried I'll=
>>>
>>> bump into errors when running this script on a very long string.  
>>> Maybe
>>> that's not an issue anymore, but I recall in earlier versions of  
>>> the Mac =
>>> OS
>>> and AS having to bite off the task in blocks. Is that still true,  
>>> and wha=
>>> t
>>> is the limitation?
>>>
>>> If anybody has a variation on the following  script that'll do  
>>> the same
>>> thing and handle large blocks of text in a more efficient manner,  
>>> I'd rea=
>>> lly
>>> appreciate seeing an example of it.
>>>
>>> Thanx!
>>>
>>> WES
>>>
>>>
>>> set myTextBlock to "This string contains more than one instance  
>>> of the wo=
>>> rd
>>> 'foo', and 'foo' is the string I want to substitute with some  
>>> other word
>>> other than 'foo'."
>>> set subString to "not_foo"
>>>
>>> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "foo"
>>> set stringList to text items in myTextBlock
>>> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
>>>
>>> set newString to ""
>>> set stringCount to count of items in stringList
>>> if stringCount is greater than 1 then
>>>  repeat with i from 1 to count of items in stringList
>>>   set thisString to item i in stringList
>>>    if i is not stringCount then
>>>     set newString to newString &  ¬
>>>      (thisString & subString) as string
>>>    else
>>>     set newString to newString & thisString
>>>    end if
>>>  end repeat
>>> end if
>>>
>>> return newString
>>>
>