find & replace vs. search & set in applescript indes

is there a shorter (find & replace-)formular for:

set suche1 to search for return & ““highlights_en”” & return
set contents of item 1 of suche1 to column break

what would be the correct syntax?

This is the most common search-replace routine in vanilla AppleScript (case-sensitive):

gracias

While jj is right, that is a very common routine and it does work, I prefer this one:

The two are almost identical except this one is safer because it resets the text item delimiters to what they had been which is not necessarily “”.

Jon


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If you want to get fancy with GREP search and replaces, there are lots of tools you can use. I like to use a “do shell script” call to Perl:

Jon


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