On Sep 18, 2008, at 5:25 PM, Michael Richards wrote:
> A test sample comes from an html file:
> <h2 class="indiv"><a name="I1267"></a> Chauvin Isabelle Marie</h2>
>
> The applescript that used to work contains the line:
> set aMatch to (find "name=.I\\d+" searching in (text 1 of text
> document 1) options {search mode:grep} with selecting match)
> The Applescript opens a folder full of html files and does examine
> the file in question but fails to match the pattern.
Michael,
This script behaves identically for me both in 9.0.1 and 8.7.2.
set zContents to "<h2 class=\"indiv\"><a name=\"I1267\"></a> Chauvin
Isabelle Marie</h2>"
tell application "BBEdit"
make new text document with properties {contents:zContents}
set zMatch to (find "name=.I\\d+" searching in (text 1 of text
document 1) options {search mode:grep with selecting match)
zMatch
end tell
In both cases, it fails to find a match.
Why? Because find starts searching from the insertion and stops at the
first match, or the end of the document, when it isn't other explicit
options.
In my example, the insertion point is wherever BBEdit left it after
the create operation. If I had opened a document, the insertion point
may be at the top if there is no saved selection range, or it may be
at some other indeterminate point in the file.
The way out of this is to specify wrap around if you are just looking
for one match, and you don't care where it is, or, more probably, if
you are working in a loop, specify "starting at top: true" in the
options for the first loop iteration, and false for subsequent
iterations.
- Jim
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