Script to reverse the order of a list

[AutomaTony]

I have a list of items separated by CRs that I need to reverse, in the same way as the “Reverse Lines” command in BBEdit’s “Tools” menu.

I am only an occasional programmer, so I need a solution I don’t need to code myself! (I need this to reverse the direction of the contents of certain fields in a FileMaker database).

Any pointers to a solution would be greatly appreciated!

[Ray_Barber]

Here’s an example of how to reverse a files name. Maybe you can adjust it to fit your needs.
PS: I’m not sure who the script.

reverse_name(choose file)
on [color=green]reverse_name/color
set x to info for an_alias
set file_ext to name extension of x
set file_name to name of x
if (file_ext is equal to missing value) then
set file_name to the reverse of every character of file_name
else
set file_name to text 1 thru -((count of file_ext) + 2) of file_name
set file_name to the reverse of every character of file_name
set file_name to file_name & “.” & file_ext
end if
set file_name to file_name as text
tell application “Finder” to set name of an_alias to file_name
end reverse_name

[jonn8]

Is this what you need?

property CR : (ASCII character 13)

set the_string to “Line 1” & CR & ¬
“Line 2” & CR & ¬
“Line 3” & CR & ¬
“Line 4” & CR & ¬
“Line 5”

set AppleScript’s text item delimiters to {CR}
set the_string to (every text item of the_string) as list
set the_string to (reverse of the_string) as string
set AppleScript’s text item delimiters to {“”}

return the_string

–this script was automatically tagged for
–color coded syntax by Script to Markup Code
–written by Jonathan Nathan

Jon

[jkortegard]

I have a list of items separated by CRs that I need to reverse, in the same way as the “Reverse Lines” command in BBEdit’s “Tools” menu.

I am only an occasional programmer, so I need a solution I don’t need to code myself! (I need this to reverse the direction of the contents of certain fields in a FileMaker database).

Any pointers to a solution would be greatly appreciated!

If you can get the items into an AppleScript list, you can simply use the “reverse” command on your list, and AppleScript will reverse the order of the list contents.

set myList to {167,"Minneapolis","Uncle Bob"}
reverse of myList

result = {“Uncle Bob”,“Minneapolis”,167}