Re: Wildcard find/replace in Automator

nomis <ghostbrain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Anybody know if it's possible to do a wilcard search/replace in
> Automator? I'm trying to create an action that, among other things,
> strips the "(1 of 2)" that I get added to the end of multipart messages
> I download from usenet, but the problem is sometimes it's (1 of 3), or
> even worse, if the title is too long, all I get is "(1 of" or something
> equally abbreviated.
>
> I'd like to tell Automator "strip the first parenthesis and everything after".
>
> Anyone have thoughts how to do so?

One of the included Automator actions is a general AppleScript action
("Run AppleScript"), so you can just write this yourself:

on run {input, parameters}
set x to offset of "(" in input
if x > 0 then
return text from character 1 to character (x - 1) of input
end if
return input
end run

m.

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