greetings
my script ing is a little rusty.
i am trying to read one file and compare the two with a text output of
my matches. -- make any sence ?
file 1 has one string of numbers
12345
12346
12347
12348
file 2 has numbers and letters
12345 apple
12346 fruit
12347 beef
12348 mustbelunchtime
I can run a simple shell grep on a terminal to find the letters that
correspond to the number
example:
grep 12345 file1 >> /path/tomyfile
i thought i would get cute and simplify this process by using
applescript but my syntax is not correct,
set IDlist to every paragraph of (read (choose file))
repeat with aID in IDlist
try
set ID_result to (do shell script "grep " & aID & " /Users/drfoo/
Desktop/filewithletters")
if ID_result is not "" then
set the_file1 to ("FOOHD:Users:drfoo:scripts:HERE:" as Unicode
text) & "Checkit"
set fRef to (open for access file the_file1 with write permission)
try
get eof of fRef
write return & ID_result to fRef starting at eof
write return
end try
close access fRef
end if
end try
end repeat
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