From: Richard Fairbanks <lists@...>
Date: 2010-08-10T07:41:27+09:00
Subject: Crunching Text Not Working in a Loop

Greetings, folks!

I need to be able to capitalize words inside quote marks, as part of a
string of words. I need to use proper publishing capitalization
protocols which is more involved than simply making the first letter of
each word uppercase. Thus the appended script is greatly truncated!

I would be very grateful if someone could please advise me on why the
following doesn’t work as part of a repeating loop or with typographic
quote marks, but does work as a simple standalone script.

Blessings and thank you!

Richard Fairbanks

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The following does work, but only if the first quote is a straight
quote: ' or ". It doesn’t work with typesetter marks: ‘ or “

  #!/usr/bin/env ruby

  require 'rubygems'
  require "jcode"; $KCODE = "UTF8"
  require 'appscript'; include Appscript
  require 'osax'; include OSAX

  # copy the text: "abc"
  item = osax.the_clipboard()
  item1 = item[0,1]
  item2 = item[1..-1]
  item = item1 + item2.capitalize!
  osax.set_the_clipboard_to(item)  #=> "Abc"s

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BUT it doesn’t work at all as part of a loop:

  #!/usr/bin/env ruby

  require 'rubygems'
  require "jcode"; $KCODE = "UTF8"
  require 'appscript'; include Appscript
  require 'osax'; include OSAX

  openingQuoteMark = ["'", "\"", "‘", "’", "“"]

  # get the text to be processed:
  theString = osax.the_clipboard()

  theWords = theString.split  # convert the text to an array of the
words

  theWords.each do |item|
    charList = item.split(//)  # create an array of the word’s
characters
      # first check to see if there is an opening quote mark
    unless openingQuoteMark.include?(charList[0])  # if the word doesn’t
start with a quote mark. If it does, this will only try to capitalize
the quote mark!
      # this works fine
      item = item.capitalize!
    else
      # but the following doesn’t work
      # to test: copy me to the clipboard with "abc"
      item1 = item[0,1]
      item2 = item[1..-1]
      item = item1 + item2.capitalize!
      osax.say "but it does run!"
    end
  end

  # convert the full list to a string with a space between each item
  theWords = theWords * ' '

  # set the clipboard to the processed string
  osax.set_the_clipboard_to(theWords)
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