Applescript, slightly off-topic...

[Dale Pond]

Don't know about AppleScript but here is a Rev script that works:

  -- find and delete eol returns
  repeat
    get offset(RETURN, cd fld Text1)
    if it = 0 then exit repeat
    put " " into char it of cd fld Text1
  end repeat


tkuypers at pandora.be wrote:

>Could anyone tell me how to search for 3 returns in a textfile and replace
>them by 2 returns...
>
>I am using Revolution, to do some automated layout in Adobe InDesign, but
>can¹t seem to find how to use special characters in a search and replace
>string using AppleScript...
>
>When using the following script, InDesign "unexpectedly quits"...
>
>tell application "InDesign 2.0.2"
>    set find preferences to nothing
>    set change preferences to nothing
>    tell active document
>        set vSearch to return & return & return
>        set vReplace to return & return
>        search for vSearch in active document replacing with vReplace
>    end tell
>end tell
>
>Any other search & replace works fine, but how do I get rid of those
>returns?
>
>Any help is welcome, I¹m afraid the guys on the Adobe list are sleeping, no
>reply there at all :-((
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>
>Ton Kuypers
>
>  
>


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