The following five lines occur in a double repeat loop of a
FileMaker AppleScript which is processing multiple files in multiple
folders. These particular lines use a perl script to extract the
date from the text of each of the files and return it to the variable
myDate in a form appropriate for FileMaker.
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tell application "Finder"
set myStr to read . . . --reads the text file
write myStr to . . . --writes string to a different (temporary) file
set myDate to do shell script perlFile
end tell
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perlFile is the path to the perl script which reads the
temporary file and extracts the date string from it thereby returning
it to myDate.
It would be much nicer to simply pass myStr directly to the
perl script for execution without the use of a temporary file, but I
can't seem to do it.
This subject was discussed on the MacPerl list quite a while
ago, but I couldn't make the methods discussed there work.
Any suggestions much appreciated it. I am using OS 10.1.2.
Paul
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Paul Schatz
Chem Dept
University of Virginia
