Yes, that works. Which suggests that Mountain Lion Applescript doesn't play nice with the Satimage OSAX. ( I downloaded the latest version of Satimage, but that didn't help.)


On Nov 13, 2012, at 5:57 PM, "Stockly, Ed" <[log in to unmask]>
 wrote:

> -->>I have a script that goes through a humungous test file looking for
> stuff.  Simple version:
> 
> Depending on what the "do some stuff with it" does, this might simplify
> things. It definitely tells you if your keywords are in the part of bigfile
> you're looking at. Don't know how big humungous is, but it works on a pretty
> large file OMM.
> 
> ES
> 
> set keywords to {"foo", "bar", "Fred"}
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"whatever"}
> set thePieces to text items of bigFile
> repeat with onePiece in thePieces
>    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to keywords
>    set onePieceItems to text items of onePiece
>    if (count (onePieceItems)) > 1 then
>        --    (do some stuff with it)
>    end if
> end repeat
> 
> 
> On 11/13/12 1:15 PM, "Bill Steele" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> I have a script that goes through a humungous test file looking for stuff.
>> Simple version:
>> 
>> set keywords to {"foo","bar","Fred"}
>> set thePieces to splittext bigFile using "whatever"
>> repeat with onePiece in thePieces
>> repeat with oneWord in keywords
>> if onePiece contains oneWord
>> (do some stuff with it)
>> end if
>> end repeat
>> end repeat