Hi, > On Jan 4, 2016, at 3:21 AM, Andy Burnett <andy.burn...@knowinnovation.com> > wrote: > > I often find that I need to do simple manipulations to passages of text, e.g. > remove all carriage returns, or extract email addresses etc. > > Pasting the text into a Playground doesn't work because there is always an > apostrophe, or line break or... etc. and the playground complains. > > Is there a way to tell a Playground to just ignore the text, and give me a > handle to its contents, so that I can then do something like > > playgroundId contents splitOn:Character space. > > Alternatively, is there another object that would be more appropriate? > Playground would be really useful just because it is in the menu, and always > available.
The Playground does not yet allow you to do that. But, you can use the Clipboard: Clipboard clipboardText splitOn:Character space. Cheers, Doru > Cheers > Andy -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "Value is always contextual."
