handler called twice?

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Can you call a handler twice?
The first time I want to remove nbsp; from the text
the second time I want to change “Next” to “Listen!”

also, how do you get the text back from the call
set newtext to searchReplace() gives an improper handling error
set newtext to item 1 of searchReplace() also gives an error
what is the proper way to get the results from the handler?

searchReplace(clean_text, "nbsp;", "")
searchReplace(thisText, "Next", "Listen!")
to searchReplace(thisText, searchTerm, replacement)
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to searchTerm
	set thisText to thisText's text items
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to replacement
	set thisText to "" & thisText
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
	return thisText
end searchReplace
#2

Hi,

the result of the handler is just the result of the line

set resultfromHandler1 to searchReplace(clean_text, "nbsp;", "")
set resultfromHandler2 to searchReplace(thisText, "Next", "Listen!")
to searchReplace(thisText, searchTerm, replacement)
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to searchTerm
	set thisText to thisText's text items
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to replacement
	set thisText to "" & thisText
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
	return thisText
end searchReplace

if you have mor than one result value, return a list e.g.

set {a, b, c} to strip("One Two Three")
a --> "One"
b --> "Two"
c --> "Three"

on strip(x)
	return words 1 thru 3 of x
end strip