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user2205156
user2205156

Reputation: 21

Separate ending number of a string into variable with Applescript

I was wondering if it's possible to detect a number on the end of a random string. For example in this string: "localfile/random/1" I'd like to split this string so one variable would be the number on the end of a string, and second variable would be the rest of path. I couldn't google anything.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 582

Answers (3)

Dude named Ben
Dude named Ben

Reputation: 559

How about this?

set s to "blah4"
set l to (get last character of s)
if "1234567890" contains l then log "yes"

Upvotes: 0

adayzdone
adayzdone

Reputation: 11238

This will let you split the string without having to specify the last character before the number string:

set myString to "localfile/random/13451"
set delimiter to "||"

set {TID, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, delimiter}
set myItems to text items of (do shell script "sed -E 's/([0-9]+$)/" & delimiter & "\\1/' <<< " & quoted form of myString)
set text item delimiters to TID
return myItems

Upvotes: 1

Lri
Lri

Reputation: 27633

If you can just split the strings around the last slash:

set x to "localfile/random/1"
set text item delimiters to "/"
{(text items 1 thru -2 of x) as text, last text item of x}

Both of these only work if the strings always end with numbers:

on test(x)
    set c to count of x
    repeat with i from 1 to c
        if item (c - i) of x is not in items of "0123456789" then
            return {text 1 thru (c - i) of x, text (c - i + 1) thru -1 of x}
        end if
    end repeat
end test
test("localfile/random/1")

do shell script "sed -E $'s/([0-9]*)$/\\\\\\n\\\\1/' <<< " & quoted form of "localfile/random/1"
set {x, y} to paragraphs of result

Upvotes: 1

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