One thing I neglected to add to my post yesterday on counting characters was that there is most likely various different ways to achieve what I did with Applescript and Automator. That’s another sometimes positive, sometimes maddening aspect of OS X — there are so many different ways to fiddle.
Along with that fact, I should have added the caveat that there was no doubt a more elegant possible use of Applescript to achieve my desired final result. And there is — reader Jay from The Practice of Code sent me a version that is so much nicer and cleaner than mine. His does not make use of the clipboard, as you can see here:
This was originally how I wanted the script to work. I didn’t want to use the clipboard, but hunting through the library in Applescript did not yield the simple “input as text” I needed. If interested, grab the code here.
Thanks Jay for sharing your knowledge. And thanks to many others who passed on their suggestions. All were good, but Jay’s was the best.
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