I wrote an applescript that will allow me to email myself a task item and add it to my todo.txt file ala todo.sh. The script works great except that it adds a carriage at the end of my message (theContent). This message up my txt file because it adds a blank line. Can anyone help me figure out how to remove it?
Here’s my script:
(*
add a mail message to todo.txt
*)
using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages selectedMsgs
tell application "Mail"
repeat with msg in selectedMsgs
set theContent to content of msg
set theSender to extract name from sender of msg
set theDate to date received of msg
set toText to "@mail @takeaction @" & theSender & " " & theDate & " @" & theContent
tell application "Terminal"
do script "/Volumes/JUMP/todo/todo.sh -d /Volumes/JUMP/todo/.todo add \"" & toText & "\""
end tell
end repeat
end tell
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
Where is the carriage return entered: is it in toText or is it put there by your shell script?
If it’s at the end of toText, then it’s straight-forward to remove:
set T to "Now is the
time for all
good men
to come
to the aid
of the party
" -- note final return places the quotes below the last line so the paragraphs of T look like {"Now is the", "time for all", "good men", "to come", "to the aid", "of the party", ""} -- note the blank line at the end
set newText to paragraphs 1 thru -2 of T -- grab all but the last.
Haven’t figured out btw why your’re using the terminal; can’t this be done with do shell script " etc. "?
I agree with Adam that it would be worth trying the do shell script command, rather than scripting Terminal, lunac.
The following (untested) suggestion also demonstrates a method of directly removing multiple returns from the end of text (rather than coercing to a list and then back to text):
using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages selectedMsgs
tell application "Mail" to repeat with msg in selectedMsgs
set theContent to content of msg
set theSender to extract name from sender of msg
set theDate to date received of msg
repeat while (count theContent's last paragraph) is 0
set theContent to theContent's text 1 thru -2
end repeat
set toText to "@mail @takeaction @" & theSender & " " & theDate & " @" & theContent
do shell script "/Volumes/JUMP/todo/todo.sh -d /Volumes/JUMP/todo/.todo add \"" & toText & "\""
end repeat
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
OH!! I never knew you could just run scripts that way ::world opening up:: That is sooo helpful. I’ve always run it through terminal. Now I have about 15 scripts I can rewrite. And I won’t make that mistake again.
