I have a script that has a repeat loop that set a variable to some text I would like to be able to search that text and different information out. like any date it contains or times.
thanks in advance for any help
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macOS Applescript Is there a way to search for a time or date withi text
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Hi,
You might want to look at the regular expressions functionality within Satimage.osax
http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/downloads/downloads_companion_osaxen.html
Hope that's some help
You might want to look at the regular expressions functionality within Satimage.osax
http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/downloads/downloads_companion_osaxen.html
Hope that's some help
I extracted the time using the code below
this works well.
couldn't work it out with the Satimage OSAX but have used it in other scripts.
Code:
set theText to "test of extracting the time 19:30 from all of the other text"
set theOffset to offset of ":" in theText
set num to theOffset - 2
set thetime to text (theOffset + 2) thru num of theTextthis works well.
couldn't work it out with the Satimage OSAX but have used it in other scripts.
Regexp
Hi,
Yep, that would work if you're confident that you'll never get text like:
"Here foo:bar blah blah blah"
In which case, your script would get a false match of "oo:ba" which clearly isn't a time. If you were to use Satimage OSAX then you could use a regular expression such as:
Which would match any two digits, a colon then another two digits. You'd probably want to tweak the regular expression to avoid things like 1234:34567 (as an example) if there's a chance they might appear in your text. Writing clever regular expressions is not my strong point!
Hope that's some help,
Rob
Hi,
Yep, that would work if you're confident that you'll never get text like:
"Here foo:bar blah blah blah"
In which case, your script would get a false match of "oo:ba" which clearly isn't a time. If you were to use Satimage OSAX then you could use a regular expression such as:
Code:
set theText to "test of extracting the time 19:30 from all of 19 the other text"
set theFoundTimes to find text "[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}" in theText with all occurrences and regexpWhich would match any two digits, a colon then another two digits. You'd probably want to tweak the regular expression to avoid things like 1234:34567 (as an example) if there's a chance they might appear in your text. Writing clever regular expressions is not my strong point!
Hope that's some help,
Rob