that's me---No brains! I should know how to do this, I've done it
before, but it's one of those weeks when you feel like someone took out
your brain, dipped it in maple syrup, and then let it harden for a few
days before sticking it back in your head.
Here goes:
the script code below is supposed to read in a file containing data
formatted like this:
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:14:00 PM; clash; 638.566666666667
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:18:00 PM; Frida_Hyvonen; 31.1
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:20:00 PM; bjork; 183.716666666667
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:22:00 PM; reggae; 121.833333333333
and first create a list in which each line is one list item. then, it's
supposed to take each line of that list, and treat that as a list in
which each field of the above is a seperate item. So when I run the
code, I get this error:
"can't get every text item of 1"
now I know this is something easy. I've looked in the manuals, both the
language guide and the excellent o'reilly books, but I'm playing with
syrup-damaged brain here today folks, and I'm sure anyone over 40 (like
me) who's ever had a week of solid all-nighters thrown on his back knows
what I mean, so could some kind soul help me out?
keep in mind, this is "problem-solving" code here. It's a subset of a
larger app, and a few lines are here for debugging or checking to see if
some data is being gotten correctly (the number dialog, for example)
the problem script is here:
global thecount
set text item delimiters to (ASCII character 10)
read file "ibook:Users:joshua:Desktop:ShowTextTest.txt"
set MyJabberwocky to every text item of the result
count every text item of MyJabberwocky
set thecount to the result
display dialog thecount as number
repeat with i from 1 to the count of MyJabberwocky
set text item delimiters to " ; "
set MyStuff to every text item of i
--choose from list MyStuff
get item 1 of MyStuff
set Mydate to the result
get item 2 of MyStuff
set myShow to the result
get item 3 of MyStuff
set myRun to the result
end repeat
choose from list MyJabberwocky
display dialog the result as text
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