Something like this?:

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set myFile to choose file with prompt "Select an XML file"
set myText to "one:two:three:four:five:"

set newText to myText & (read myFile)

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HTH,

ES


On 5/10/10 6:38 AM, "jeff donovan" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Greetings
> 
> i need to add the contents of a file to the end of each line of a string. It
> would be easy to do a simple sed 's/mytext/newtext/g'
> 
> newtext in this case is an xml file. which needs to stay intact.
> 
> my text looks like this
> 
> one:two:three:four:five:
> 
> 
> output needs to look like this
> 
> 
> one:two:three:four: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\
> <dict>\
> <key>AccountState</key>\
> <string>Enabled</string>\
> </dict>\
> 
> 
> So I thought i could ;
> REPLACE=/path/to/myfile
> cat mytext | sed 's/five/$REPLACE/g'
> 
> 
> im getting stuck any assistance would be helpful.
> -j