looping through comma delimited string - Need Help

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#1

I have a comma delimited string that I need to work through and fire a method on each of the pieces of that string.

For instance: I might have a variable that hold the value 2,69,12

I need to loop through that and call a method on 2 then the same method on 69 and finally on 12.

I can not figure out how to loop through or how to get each piece of that string.

Thanks in advance.

#2

Hi,

The way I’d do it is by using text item delimiters, these provide a fast way of dividing a string to make a list. Like this

set aString to "2,69,12"

set {myTID, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, {","}}
set myList to text items of aString -- Gives list {"2", "69", "12"}
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to myTID -- It's considered good practice to return the TID's to their original state

repeat with myItem in myList -- Loop through the items in the list
	--Do your method call here
end repeat

Best wishes

John M

#3

Given the nature of your sample data, you could also:

set x to words of x
repeat...