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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 >>