Hi Jim, not sure I understand the problem, but this should give you the TEXT/source of that file: ... put url "file:/Users/jimhurley/Library/Mail Downloads/elec_web/precincts/241.htm" into tSource ...
> Am 21.06.2016 um 15:11 schrieb Jim Hurley <jhurley0...@sbcglobal.net>: > > Thank you so much. Sooooo useful! > > Understatement of the year: "Using above "text" instead of "source" may save > you some work." > > It saves a mountain of parsing. > > Shouldn't this be a part of LiveCode? > > Jim Hurley > >> Message: 1 >> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 22:06:41 -0700 (PDT) >> From: "[-hh]" <h...@hh.on-rev.com> >> To: use-revolut...@lists.runrev.com >> Subject: Re: Get url "file:///..." >> Message-ID: <1466485601879-4706007.p...@n4.nabble.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> Assuming you are on a Mac: >> The following should work from 10.4 to 10.12 with LC 5/6/7/8. >> >> on mouseUp >> put "/Users/jimhurley/Library/Mail%20Downloads/elec_web/precincts/241.htm" >> into f >> put "source" into sOrT --> one of "source", "text", "URL" >> do iScript(f, sOrT) as applescript >> put the result into fld 1 >> end mouseUp >> >> Using above "text" instead of "source" may save you some work. >> (The LC interpretation as htmltext does the same but somehow 'uncomplete'). >> >> function iScript f,x >> put numToChar(34) into q >> return "tell application " & q&"Safari"&q &cr& \ >> " open POSIX file " & q&URLdecode(f)&q &cr& \ >> " set rslt to " & x & " of document 1" &cr& \ >> "end tell" >> end iScript Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major-k.de _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
