[schwa]

I have a script that is pulling events out of iCal and writing them to an LDIF text file. If an event has a note that contains a line break, that creates a problem for me, since LDIF expects a new line to contain a new name:value pair.

There are a couple ways I can deal with re-formatting the output, but I need some way for AppleScript to understand what a line break looks like. I don't think I can have it look based on ASCII values. Any ideas?

BTW, no, I can't do this via BBEdit. I want to be able to freely distribute the script as a stand-alone app.

TIA...

There's a way to set a variable to ascii code 10 and ascii code 13 (cr and lf). Then, when working with strings you can have
mystring & cr & lf & mystring2

I'm not at my Mac now so I can't look 'em up for you, but search for AppleScript CGIs for web servers and they'll have some examples. That's where I found them.

[schwa]

Thanks for the tip. I got it to work. Here's the code, if anyone's interested:

Code:
on CleanLineBreaks(dirty_string)
	set clean_string to ""
	set OldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to (ASCII character 10)
	set line_list to text items of dirty_string
	repeat with this_line in line_list
		set clean_string to clean_string & this_line
		if the length of line_list is greater than 1 then
			set clean_string to clean_string & ". "
		end if
	end repeat
	
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to OldDelims
	return clean_string
end CleanLineBreaks