>George Henne [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2/25/03 at 10:38 stated: > >>I have a vendor that sends me data in a .csv (comma separated value) file >>as an attachment to the message. How can I open this file and copy its >>contents? >> >> >> >BBedit? TextEdit? Any good text editor should let you do this. If you >want to parse the data automatically, that's a bit different, but it's >pretty easy to do. > >-- Begin AppleScript template > >set TID to AppleScript's Text Item Delimiters > >Tell application "text editor goes here" > >set MessageContainer to contents of text window 1 as list (* This is >actually BBedit syntax *) > >End Tell > >set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "," > >repeat with i from 1 to (count of items of MessageContainer) >set Holder1 to text item 1 of (item i of MessageContainer) >set Holder2 to text item 2 of (item i of MessageContainer) > >-- keep doing this until you're finished with the items > >-- do what ever you need to with the data now. > >Wayne
I'm not sure this is what I am looking for. I need the script that extracts the data somehow from Powermail and gets it into the editor. I think the above code assumes it is already in text window 1. How did it get there from PM?
