Script Tools

• Version: 1.3-0
• Author: Mark Alldritt
• Requirements: AppleScript
• Cost: free
• Pros: contains a "grep" tool useful for text processing
• Cons: none
• Remote location: <URL:>
• Tricks location: <URL:http://152.1.24.177/teaching/archives/script-tools.hqx>

Script Tools is a collection of OSAX. The most useful OSAX for WWW server scripting is the Regular Expressions OSAX. If you are familiar with the Unix environment, or if you use BBEdit as your text editor, then you may have heard of "regular expressions" before. In short, regular expressions represent a method of describing, searching, and replacing text strings using a sets of symbols. The whole process is very cryptic but very powerful. Using regular expressions brings to mind magical incantations whose force is equal to Merlin the Magicians. In any event, Script Tools and the Regular Expressions OSAX are a recommended addition to your OSAX collection if your scripts do a lot of text manipulation.

Eric last edited this page on September 26, 1995. Please feel free to send comments.