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
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