Help with text search

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#1

Hello

Im a newbie at applescript so bear with me. Im trying to create a script that will:

  1. search multiple text files in an network folder for a 6 digit number
  2. show the results of the search
  3. copy the results to the clipboard

the text files are job files that our company uses. Each job has a 6 digit number then data after it. for example:

600001
text
text
text
600002
text
text
text
text
600003

I want to be able to do a search for 600001 and it will show the results plus copy the text after the job number but stop at the next 6 digit job number. Is this possible? Ive written a script that only does the search through textwrangler but nothing else.

Any ideas? Thanks.

#2 
set theFile to POSIX path of ((choose file) as string)

set theLines to every paragraph of (do shell script "cat " & quoted form of theFile) 

set theData to {}
set theBuffer to {}
repeat with thisLine in theLines
	if (do shell script "echo " & quoted form of thisLine & " | tr -d [0-9]")'s length = 0 and thisLine's length = 6 and theBuffer is not {} then
		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return
		set end of theData to (theBuffer as string)
		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
		set theBuffer to {}
	end if
	set end of theBuffer to contents of thisLine
end repeat

if theBuffer is not {} then
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return
	set end of theData to (theBuffer as string)
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
end if

return theData
#3

Thank you for that, how would i integrate a window that pops up when the script is run asking what job number you are looking for? The search script that i have at the moment is:



tell application "TextWrangler"
	activate
	
	set jobNumber to text returned of (display dialog "Please enter the job number:" default answer "")
	find jobNumber searching in {alias "Tin:Text from PICK:"} options {search mode:grep, case sensitive:false, match words:false, extend selection:false, showing results:true}
	
	
	
end tell

I cant seem to get the 2 to work together. Any Suggestions?