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I have a string that is separated by tabs. Is there any way to extract the data between tabs? I can't use the word command as there are spaces in my data.

example:
tHilitedText Contains...
name <tab> address 1 <tab> address 2

When I try the following, it only selects data up until a space is reached. I want to select until the tab is reached.

put word 1 of tHilitedText into tName
put word 2 of tHilitedText into tAddress1
put word 3 of tHilitedText into tAddress2

Thanks!
Warren

should do the trick

You can "set the itemDelimiter to" very many things, to make your own separators.

SparkOut,

Thanks for helping me out again!!! Appreciate it!

Warren

No problem.
Just for info, note that the itemDelimiter is a local property and will reset itself to comma at the end of each handler.

Also here http://support.runrev.com/scriptingconferences/ you will find some useful info, topic 8 and 16 deal with manipulating text.

Awesome! I was looking to do the same thing today. Thanks!

SparkOut wrote:

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set the itemDelimiter to tab
put item 1 of tHilitedText into tName 
put item 2 of tHilitedText into tAddress1 
put item 3 of tHilitedText into tAddress2 

should do the trick

You can "set the itemDelimiter to" very many things, to make your own separators.