Yeah, that's along the lines I was thinking. Hopefully I'll have some  
time to work on it a bit today.

Thanks,

RJay


On Oct 2, 2008, at 8:08 AM, Paul Skinner wrote:

> As a simple hack of a fix, you could handle this error by number  
> and break the search string into a list of 255 character or less  
> chunks. Then loop through the chunks replacing them.
>
> On Oct 1, 2008, at 5:50 PM, RJay Hansen wrote:
>
>> It does look like that's the problem. I just tested with another  
>> paragraph. Works with 255 characters. Fails w/256.
>>
>> RJay
>>
>>
>> On Oct 1, 2008, at 4:08 PM, Paul Skinner wrote:
>>
>>> 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