Fletcher: You have given me what I need, especially from your second idea. You have answered several puzzles at once, including what that "with selecting match" is for.
I didn't realize that "\S" includes line endings. I had some trouble with ".*" in replace, so used the 'found object' property of Search Match, the result of a find operation. I am finally starting to know how to use that dictionary thing. Took some learning. Rich: Thank you for your help. I have used both the AppleScript Language Guide and the dictionaries, but still needed more explanations. I am finally getting to the point where I don't get cryptic errors on 9 tries out of 10. I think I needed to start asking questions at forums sooner, and searching out examples of basic operations, such as getting a text document ready to edit. Hard to find. I suspect in hindsight that BBEdit's factories may have been an easier approach, but I'm glad to be better AppleScript. -------------------------------------------- My current search & replace script is below in case anyone has feedback. Thank you both for your help. Hal ------------------------------------------- set myFile to POSIX file "/Users/Hal/Documents/.../ScriptTarget.2.txt" set findText to "is" set replText to "isn't" tell application "BBEdit" activate set myDoc to open myFile set myWindow to window of myDoc find findText searching in myDoc with selecting match replace found object of result using replText searching in selection of myWindow close myWindow saving yes end tell -- BBEdit -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/9a0800b9-3123-418c-8c48-70c545539d93%40googlegroups.com.
