characters disappearing when asking for words of

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#1

Hi,
I was trying to extract the number of words from .do#/d) and i got 2 instead of 1
I assume that there are characters that are considered to be word delimiters (one of them I know is . another #)
I wander where I can find the list of all such character or, better, a clever way to get a list of items going {.do#/d),b,c} out of an original string: .do#/d) b c

set myString to ".do#/d) b c"
set newString to {}
repeat with i from 1 to number of (what I do not know) in myString
set end of newString to (what I do not know) i of myString
end repeat
-- newString should now be {.do#/d),b,c} so i can then work on it by asking for its items

thanks for your help

#2

Try:


set myString to ".do#/d) b c"
set {TID, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, {" "}}
set myWords to text items of myString
set text item delimiters to TID

return myWords
#3

Thanks adayzdone,

That was really helpful.

That worked well in script editor but failed in xCode.
Can’t get text item delimiters of class “NSObject”. (error -1728)

I made it work like this:

set {TID,applescript's text item delimiters} to {applescript's text item delimiters,{" "}}