It appears that way as your first query was 254 characters and the  
second exceeded 256. Is there a reason that you are searching for such  
a large block of text, or are you just testing your code to the edge  
cases?


On Oct 1, 2008, at 5:04 PM, RJay Hansen wrote:

> You think there's a 256 character limit?
>
> RJay
>
>
> On Oct 1, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Paul Skinner wrote:
>
>> I suspect that it's because the second term is 258 characters.
>>
>> On Oct 1, 2008, at 3:12 PM, RJay Hansen wrote:
>>
>>> Using Tex-Edit Plus' "search" command from the Tex-Edit Suite in  
>>> its AppleScript dictionary, on this paragraph:
>>>
>>> "And, as Lantano made his way through the basement, among the  
>>> cots, stepping over people, their meager stores, saying hello  
>>> here, smiling to someone there, Nicholas thought, _My god, when he  
>>> came through the entrance he looked like an old man, weathered,  
>>> dried-out, but now, closer, Lantano appeared middle-aged; the aura  
>>> of extreme age had been an illusion due to the scrawny quality of  
>>> the man and the peculiar stiffness in the way he walked; it was as  
>>> if he were delicate, feared an injury, a fall._"
>>>
>>> If I do this:
>>>
>>> tell application "Tex-Edit Plus"
>>> 	search paragraph 2 of document 1 looking for "My god, when he  
>>> came through the entrance he looked like an old man, weathered,  
>>> dried-out, but now, closer, Lantano appeared middle-aged; the aura  
>>> of extreme age had been an illusion due to the scrawny quality of  
>>> the man and the peculiar stiffness in the"
>>> end tell
>>>
>>> Tex-Edit selects the string within the paragraph and the script  
>>> returns "true". However if I add one more word to that search  
>>> string like so:
>>>
>>> tell application "Tex-Edit Plus"
>>> 	search paragraph 2 of document 1 looking for "My god, when he  
>>> came through the entrance he looked like an old man, weathered,  
>>> dried-out, but now, closer, Lantano appeared middle-aged; the aura  
>>> of extreme age had been an illusion due to the scrawny quality of  
>>> the man and the peculiar stiffness in the way"
>>> end tell
>>>
>>> I get an error:
>>>
>>> Tex-Edit Plus got an error: Can't make some data into the expected  
>>> type
>>>
>>> with "search paragraph 2 of document 1 looking for......etc"  
>>> highlighted.
>>>
>>> Anyone have any ideas what the problem is here? A bug?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> RJay