Hi I have a text file that I need use as a osascript to format some Excel files. My commands are working between the osascript and Excel but what I would like to do is format the text file with an array.
Is there a way to expand the array variables into another text file while still retaining the original formatting?
I cant run the below code in the shell until the array has been expanded
Below is the source filelist_array
I hope that I have explained myself clearly. What I am essentially triyng to do is format a proper command to run as an osascript.
Thank you very much for your help.
Hi thank you very much! that worked, but I was wondering if there is a better way to go about this?
You suggested to use a flat file. I'm not sure I understand, would that be to already perform the substitution of the variables with something like sed?
The osascript is used save the Excel file as a tab delimited file which I will use in another script.
The array comes form a list of files that are submitted through a hot folder.
Directly below is the script I use to format the array and move the files from one folder to another to be worked on.
Is there a way to call the osascript from the script I use to format the array, and write out my osascript file with the proper file names (your suggestion worked fine I just wondered if there is a more direct way).
Or is there a way to run the osascript in such a way that the shell can parse the variables in the array and pass it to the osascript?
Thank you very much for your help!!
Below is the full osascript to save as tab delimited "FILENAME" is name of the original Excel files.
You suggested to use a flat file. I'm not sure I understand, would that be to already perform the substitution of the variables with something like sed?
What substitution of what variables?
A flat file is a file like this:
Which can be used without transforming it into an array like
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The osascript is used save the Excel file as a tab delimited file which I will use in another script. The array comes form a list of files that are submitted through a hot folder.
Directly below is the script I use to format the array and move the files from one folder to another to be worked on.
Is there a way to call the osascript from the script I use to format the array, and write out my osascript file with the proper file names (your suggestion worked fine I just wondered if there is a more direct way).
Or is there a way to run the osascript in such a way that the shell can parse the variables in the array and pass it to the osascript?
The proper way would be to write the code you want in applescript, but I don't know applescript.
You have taken the long way around by transforming a file into an array with six invocations of sed however! That is unnecessary.
I have left out your outer 'while true' loop since I'm not certain what that's for. I don't think you actually want an infinite loop over the same data, do you?
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Below is the full osascript to save as tab delimited "FILENAME" is name of the original Excel files.
Using Hypercard to kludge Microsoft Excel into working automatically is rather the long way around too. Do you have Perl? Can you install Spreadsheet::WriteExcel?
Then you can do
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Hi, yes I have perl Its the better way to go, and I will give it a try. Thank you again for your help.
When this working my troubles are not over, applescript for excel was really not my first choice. All this works end result is to insert some thumbnail pictures on the same row as a given sku number plus provide a link to a web page in the original excel file. The files are supplied in excell 2016. Anything would have been easier than working with excel applescript, Visual basic for 2016 has been all but eliminated in excel for mac 2016, and grep like functions to pull the file names out of the excel file do not exist in applescript. The best I can do is try to format a final osascript using sed and awk and then run that.
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
Below is the osascript I am using
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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