On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:06:55 -0500, Mark Lively <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Nov 22, 2006, at 12:51 PM, Bob R. wrote: > >> Is there a scripting addition freeware that will sort strings of >> text in alphabetical order, for >> OSX? >> >> Thanks! >> > there is the shell command sort > > set foo to {"a", "b", "d", "g", "aa", "bb", "c", "cc", "e", "f"} > set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return > set lun to open for access ("/tmp/junk.txt" as POSIX file) with write > permission > write (foo as text) to lun > close lun > set outtext to do shell script "sort /tmp/junk.txt" > every text item of outtext Wouldn't that be: -- set foo to {"a", "b", "d", "g", "aa", "bb", "c", "cc", "e", "f"} set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ASCII character 10 try close access ("/tmp/junk.txt" as POSIX file) end try set lun to open for access ("/tmp/junk.txt" as POSIX file) with write permission write (foo as text) to lun close lun set outtext to do shell script "sort /tmp/junk.txt" set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return every text item of outtext