Number list from Dialog Display user input.

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#1

Trying to work out how to have the user enter a string of numbers which can then be used as a list.


display dialog "Please specify required page numbers separated by a comma" default answer "1, 2, 3"
set PageList to the text returned of result -- as list

repeat with aPage in PageList
	display dialog aPage
end repeat

The script returns not only the numbers but ALL the text items. (commas and spaces as well).

How do I convert the text to list which contain just the numbers for use as a list further in the script.

#2

Try something like this:

display dialog default answer "1, 2, 3"
set PageList to text returned of result

set prevTIDs to text item delimiters of AppleScript
set text item delimiters of AppleScript to ", "
set PageList to text items of PageList
set text item delimiters of AppleScript to prevTIDs

repeat with aPage in PageList
	display dialog aPage
end repeat
#3

Thanks Bruce !!

I suspected that delimiters are one way of achieving this. I was curious, whether there was a way to specify a list directly without the use of delimiters.

Matt.