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