String shortening

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#1

Hey I have a string



set theBodyLong to content of eachMessage

theBodyLong can be a HUUUUUUUGE string, I need to shorten it down to 100 characters… How would I do this?

FYI: I wrote an applescript that takes each email that comes in and sends them to my phone through iChat’s SMS feature… and when I have a text more than 160 characters, it splits it up into a text message for every 160 characters… ya… I need this ASAP… I am being raped by texts…

#2

Hey-

set theBodyLong to "aslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgkaslfbkjgblkgbkasbgkabgkhbg;kbgk"
text 1 thru 100 of theBodyLong

I’m sure you can see how to change this so it will work with other lengths of characters.:wink:

#3

that will just work… I just toss that in and it makes my string down to 100 characters…???

if yes… then THANKS

#4

Try something like this:

set theBodyLong to content of eachMessage

try
	-- Using a try block because this will cause an error if the text is shorter than 100 characters
	set theBodyLong to text 1 thru 100 of theBodyLong
end try