How to get 1st line of text?

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#1

Hi,

For a new text macro:

How to get 1st line of text in a file, f ex TextEdit?

I need it to for the file name.

Then I want to save the file with this first line (which is the title).

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with best regards,
Omar K N
Stockholm, Sweden

#2

Hi,

straight forward


tell application "TextEdit"
	1st paragraph of text of document 1
end tell
#3

Hi StephanK,

I get with this script the error message:

‘Expected end of line but found unknown token.’

I guess that document 1 ( or the name of my document ) has to be better defined, (of folder of other folder.) ?

Maybe you could have another look at it,

with best regards,
Omar K N
Stockholm, Sweden

#4

If there is any open document with at least one line of text the code is supposed to work in TextEdit

#5

Sorry, doesn’t work.

#6

please check if the double quotes in the first line of code are real double quotes (0x22)

#7

Yes they are real quotes, straight down quotes, such as ", but not ".

BTW in:

tell application "TextEdit"¨
1st paragraph of text of document 1
end tell

Shouldn’t there be some kind of command. like read or get…

(But really I’ve have no idea.)

I also wonder where is the AppleScript reference of TextEdit?

with best regards,
Omar K N
Stockholm, Sweden

#8

Hello

I clicked on [Open this Scriplet in your Editor:] in the first message posted by StefanK.
I opened a TextEdit document as StefanK urged you to do.
And, what a surprise, the script did exactly what it was designed to do.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 17 mai 2014 21:03:07

#9

Yes - when using the script IT WORKS!

What happened is that I copied the AppleScript and pasted it into the Editor and there must have been some invisibles.

Anyway thanks to StefanK and Mr. Yvan Koenig!

with best regards,
Omar K N
Stockholm, Sweden

(AppleScript is nice and I want to learn more!)