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At 10:29 AM -0700 7/11/03, Chris Nandor wrote: >> and here's a Perl tutorial: >[snip way too many lines of tutorial, apparently intended to make perl look >a lot harder than it is] > >Here is what, perhaps, you meant: > >Open BBEdit >Type > print "Hello, world." >Run the script > Yes, that's one way to run a Perl script, but Apple doesn't bundle BBEdit with OS X. I wasn't trying to make Perl look harder than it is. I was illustrating the baseline of knowledge you need to get started. >> Now that you've mastered Perl and Applescript, it should be trivial >> to use either language to create a script that extracts information >> from a FileMaker database and places it into a QuarkXPress template, >> then imports images into the document from a remote server, applies >> the appropriate style sheets to the text, prints the document on a >> color printer, exports the document as a PDF, saves the text as an >> HTML file, then opens the HTML file in BBEdit. > >Yes, quite. A snippet: > > use Mac::Glue; > my $fm = new Mac::Glue 'FileMaker Pro'; > > $fm->obj(file => $file)->open; > > # get fields > my @fields = $fm->prop(name => fields => database => 1)->get; > > # get records where second cell isn't empty > my @data = $fm->obj(records => > whose(NOT => [cell => 2, equals => '']), > database => 1 > )->get; > >etc. > >Or did you intend to mean that manipulating data in AppleScript was hard? > > >> If you find this difficult to accomplish in Perl > >I don't. :-) I think you might be a special case. Not everyone has written Mac::Glue or maintained MacPerl. If you are claiming that you can do everything with Perl and Mac::Glue that you can with Applescript, then I won't dispute you. But don't pretend it's just as easy for a novice. My original point stands: getting rid of Applescript because Robin prefers Perl is a bad idea. I wish I had cross-posted my original reply to MACSCPT so we could have a proper flamewar. -- Chip Howland The Sportsman's GuideThread Previous | Thread Next