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Re: Searching for "fraction slash"

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On 2015-03-20, isw <isw@witzend.com> wrote:

[Followups set to alt.comp.lang.applescript]

> I opened one of the recipes with a hex editor, and found that the 
> location of the slash contains "\u8260 ". A search revealed that is 
> "&frasl" in HTML, which is evidently a "fraction slash". The Mac's 
> Character Viewer thinks that "fraction slash" is U+0066, for what that 
> is worth.

8260 decimal is 2044 hexadecimal. In AppleScript, you can use the «data
utxt» formatter to work with Unicode characters. To get the fraction
slash character, you can use:

«data utxt2044» as Unicode text

> So all I want to do is find the thing so it can be replaced by a 
> "regular" slash, but I need to know what to tell the AppleScript to look 
> for, and I don't know how to do that.

This seems to work for me:

-- begin script
property bunchOfText : "this ⁄ is a test
of the emergency ⁄ broadcast system
please stay ⁄ calm
and bring ⁄ your towel"

property searchCharacter : «data utxt2044» as Unicode text

set newText to my SearchReplace(bunchOfText, searchCharacter, "/")

return my SearchReplace(newText, searchCharacter, "***")

on SearchReplace(sourceStr, searchString, replaceString)
	-- replace <searchString> with <replaceString> in <sourceStr>
	set searchStr to (searchString as text)
	set replaceStr to (replaceString as text)
	set sourceStr to (sourceStr as text)
	set saveDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to (searchString)
	set theList to (every text item of sourceStr)
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to (replaceString)
	set theString to theList as string
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to saveDelims
	return theString
end SearchReplace
-- end script

The "bunchOfText" property is a string with the Unicode 2044 characters
in it (added directly from the keyboard by typing Option-Shift-1. I used
the «data utxt» formatter to set the "searchCharacter" property to the
single Unicode 2044 character so I can search for it. I typed the « and
» characters on the keyboard with Option-\ and Option-Shift-\,
respectively. The SearchReplace handler uses an AppleScript text item
delimiter trick to locate the substring and replace it.

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JR

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Searching for "fraction slash" isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-03-19 20:37 -0700
  Re: Searching for "fraction slash" Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-20 18:22 +1200
    Re: Searching for "fraction slash" isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-03-20 10:59 -0700
  Re: Searching for "fraction slash" Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-03-19 22:36 -0700
  Re: Searching for "fraction slash" Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-20 13:48 +0000
    Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-03-20 15:08 -0700
      Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-03-20 16:40 -0700
        Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-21 13:19 +1200
          Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-03-20 18:08 -0700
        Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-03-20 20:21 -0700
      Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-21 00:03 +0000
        Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-03-20 20:20 -0700
          Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-21 12:48 +0000
            Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-03-21 21:47 -0700
              Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-22 18:00 +1200
              Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-22 12:15 +0000
                Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-03-22 08:39 -0700
                Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-22 15:47 +0000
                Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-23 02:54 +0000
                Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-03-23 16:51 +1300
                Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-03-22 21:42 -0700
                Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-23 13:25 +0000
                Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-23 13:23 +0000
                Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-03-22 21:27 -0700
      Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-21 13:19 +1200
        Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-03-20 20:16 -0700
          Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-21 12:40 +0000
          Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-22 09:57 +1200
            Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-03-21 22:09 -0700
              Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-22 19:19 +1200

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