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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Exanding an array into another file. Post 303027339 by Paul Walker on Thursday 13th of December 2018 04:22:55 PM
Old 12-13-2018
Hi thank you for your help I have gotten a little further with this script, I probably should have explained the entire scope of the script so that you might have had a better understanding of what I need to do, rather than just the part that I was having trouble with.

The task I'm trying to accomplish is to insert a number of thumbnails and a web address link on the same row that a sku # appears in a Excel 2016 document. The sku number or a fairly close approximation of it appears in the name of the web page on our web server and in the thumbnail file names I will use to insert into the excel doc.
So far thanks to your help I have been able to write out a csv file from the excel doc and form this into a find command that gives me the proper file name for the web page and thumbnails for each sku item.
This is the point where I am little out of my depth and could use a suggestion of what is the best way to accomplish what I need to do next.


I have the the row number and the filename of the matching sku saved in a file I also have a osascript to place the thumbnails and weblink

What I need to do is insert the $ROW_NUMBER and $SKU_NAME into the osascript where they need to be and save the file off with the values expanded into there proper names
Directly below is an example of the file with the $ROW_NUMBER and proper file name of the $SKU_NAME variables, the "tLINE" copy is just a placeholder that I use to make it easier to manipulate the file if I need to, the number at the front of the line is the actual row number

Code:
2tLINE 488906_001_Winter_NY_Produce_End_Cap_Bunker_ATL_Agri-Growers_36x19.5_E_F
3tLINE 488906_002_Winter_NY_Produce_End_Cap_Bunker_ATL_Agri-Growers_36x19.5_E_F
4tLINE 488906_003_Winter_NY_Produce_End_Cap_Bunker_ATL_Scotia-Gold_36x19.5_E_F

Below is the osascript I am using
Code:
osascript <<EOD
tell application "Microsoft Excel"
    activate    
    make new hyperlink of cell "B$ROW-NUMBER" at active sheet with properties {address:"http://switchauto.tigroup.ca/SCL_Preflight_Report_Page/$SKUNAME_report.html"}
    set theLeft to left position of cell "A$ROW-NUMBER"
    set theTop to top of cell "A$ROW-NUMBER"
    set currentWorkbook to workbook 1
    tell currentWorkbook
        tell worksheet 1
            set pictureShape to make new shape at the beginning with properties {height:"72", width:"72", left position:0, top:theTop, placement:placement move}
            user picture pictureShape picture file "Macintosh HD:Library:WebServer:Documents:FilesForExcel:Jpeg:$SKU-NAME_02.jpeg"
        end tell
EOD

I was hoping to use an array although I'm not sure if this is the most direct way to go about this.

The part that is giving me trouble today is that if I use an array I do not know If i can have more than one value for "i", I have two values the ROW-NUMBER and the SKUNAME that need to populate during the same iteration, is this even possible?

If you know of another way to go about this I would be happy to give it a try.

Apple script doesn't have any grep like functions although you can call a shell script that will do that for you, I was thinking that if I need to use a shell script to accomplish what I need, that I would do as much in the shell as I could, seeing as I am not very comfortable with applescript to start with.
Thank you for your time and patience.
 

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osacompile

OSACOMPILE(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					     OSACOMPILE(1)

NAME

     osacompile -- compile AppleScripts and other OSA language scripts

SYNOPSIS

     osacompile [-l language] [-e command] [-o name] [-d] [-r type:id] [-t type] [-c creator] [-x] [-s] [-u] [-a arch] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

     osacompile compiles the given files, or standard input if none are listed, into a single output script.  Files may be plain text or other
     compiled scripts.	The options are as follows:

     -l language
	   Override the language for any plain text files.  Normally, plain text files are compiled as AppleScript.

     -e command
	   Enter one line of a script.	Script commands given via -e are prepended to the normal source, if any.  Multiple -e options may be given
	   to build up a multi-line script.  Because most scripts use characters that are special to many shell programs (e.g., AppleScript uses
	   single and double quote marks, ``('', ``)'', and ``*''), the command will have to be correctly quoted and escaped to get it past the
	   shell intact.

     -o name
	   Place the output in the file name.  If -o is not specified, the resulting script is placed in the file ``a.scpt''.  The value of -o
	   partly determines the output file format; see below.

     -x    Save the resulting script as execute-only.

     The following options are only relevant when creating a new bundled applet or droplet:

     -s    Stay-open applet.

     -u    Use startup screen.

     -a arch
	   Create the applet or droplet for the specified target architecture arch.  The allowable values are ``ppc'', ``i386'', and ``x86_64''.
	   The default is to create a universal binary.

     The following options control the packaging of the output file.  You should only need them for compatibility with classic Mac OS or for cus-
     tom file formats.

     -d    Place the resulting script in the data fork of the output file.  This is the default.

     -r type:id
	   Place the resulting script in the resource fork of the output file, in the specified resource.

     -t type
	   Set the output file type to type, where type is a four-character code.  If this option is not specified, the creator code will not be
	   set.

     -c creator
	   Set the output file creator to creator, where creator is a four-character code.  If this option is not specified, the creator code will
	   not be set.

     If no options are specified, osacompile produces a Mac OS X format script file: data fork only, with no type or creator code.

     If the -o option is specified and the file does not already exist, osacompile uses the filename extension to determine what type of file to
     create.  If the filename ends with ``.app'', it creates a bundled applet or droplet.  If the filename ends with ``.scptd'', it creates a bun-
     dled compiled script.  Otherwise, it creates a flat file with the script data placed according to the values of the -d and -r options.

EXAMPLES

     To produce a script compatible with classic Mac OS:

	   osacompile -r scpt:128 -t osas -c ToyS example.applescript

SEE ALSO

     osascript(1), osalang(1)

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