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I'm new on Applescript and I'm trying to create a script that can browse a document text (.html) and find and replace different phrases with a corresponding cell in an Excel document.

I'll put placeholders in the text to be replaced like B_1 (first value to replace), B_2 (second), B_3 etc...

They must be replaced in order using the cells B1-B9 in the Excel document. Phrases in the Excel document will be changed each time, so why it must be dynamic to capture them rather than a standard find & replace the script with static values.

I followed this thread that everything is logical:https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7008048?start=0 & tstart = 0

However, I continue to run into compile errors. Here is my current code:

tell application "Microsoft Excel" set colB_data to value of every cell of range "B1:B9" of worksheet 1 of document 1 end tell tell application "Sublime Text" tell text of "Users/maxquinn/Desktop/index.html" repeat with index from 1 to count colB_data replace ("B_" & index as text) using (item index of colB_data) options {starting at top:true, match words:true} end repeat end tell end tell

The first half works fine, but the second half gives me error "Expected end of line but found identifier." and highlights the 'using' in the 'replace' command (line 8) .

Anyone know why this could be and is there any other glaring error in the script?

Thank you!

Max

Restructure your AppleScript in the Apple Script Editor (then do not peer in a continuous line of code) and then paste here using the Advanced Editor. Then select all the posted AppleScript and in the Style menu, choose paragraph. Now, your code is readable (hopefully) to us.

The second point. Sublime text does not include any AppleScript script definition, so you can not handle it with AppleScript.

TextEdit is scriptable, and probably you want in plain text rather than rich text (RTF) mode.

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