Hello MacScripter-Community,
I can’t get my current script to work properly. Here’s my situation:
I have a text file (.txt) with multiple lines. Let’s imagine the following lines as the content of the txt-file:
Now I need an Applescript to get all values behind the keyword "Quantity: " so my result should be 2, 40 and 856.
My attempt to solve this is calling a shell script that uses grep to get every line with the keyword "Quantity: ".
In the next step I want to iterate through all lines and extract the value behind "Quantity: "
My Applescript looks like this for now:
set searchString to "Quantity: "
set extrakt to do shell script "grep " & searchString & " /Users/johndoe/Desktop/test.txt"
set trim_chars to "/Users/johndoe/Desktop/test.txt:Quantity: "
set trim_indicator to 0
set extrakt to trim_line(extrakt, trim_chars, trim_indicator)
on trim_line(this_text, trim_chars, trim_indicator)
-- 0 = beginning, 1 = end, 2 = both
set x to the length of the trim_chars
-- TRIM BEGINNING
if the trim_indicator is in {0, 2} then
repeat while this_text begins with the trim_chars
try
set this_text to characters (x + 1) thru -1 of this_text as string
on error
return ""
end try
end repeat
end if
return this_text
end trim_line
display dialog extrakt buttons {"OK"}
My output in the dialog before trimming is the following:
After trimming I get this:
I totally understand why it is doing that, but I don’t know how to extract every value after the keyword. I guess there is also a much better way to do this kind of stuff, but I don’t know how.
My goal is to add all values after "Quantity: " together, so in this example my final output of the AppleScript should be 898 which is stored in a variable.
Can anyone help me with this please? I’m sorry for some grammar mistakes that may be in that post, english is not my native language =)
Best reagrds,
hallleron
