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Err... if we were competing in a car race... Actually my point is that if we were competing we (apparently) shouldn't bother with all this hash business. The "bullet count" version I posted earlier is much faster. Your version timed to 292 seconds on my machine on the 6000 line file. The ...

Now I see it. Of course the keys of the hash are an array. So they can be sorted.
You're version does have some improvements over the version that I was experimenting with. But testing it on a file with a bit less than 6000 lines, this approach is markedly slower than the Find and Replace version.

Kino's approach is the one that I would have used too, but there is one important difference between js's macro and Kino's. js's macro counts the number of lines as well. Here is one way to extend Kino's approach to counting lines. Select All :Edit:Sort Paragraphs:Ascending (A-Z) Find and Replace ‘^...

Thanks Martin, Kino, for the comments. I deduced that this was the behavior, but now I have peace of mind as well! As far as the description goes, since it is a technical reference I think precision trumps verbosity, but if you're worried about verbosity you could drop the either making it: If range...

The macro reference says the following: TableSelection.new tableObject, [rowRangeObject], [columnRangeObject] v1.1 Returns a new selection describing a cell region within the given table. Both Range objects must be in-bounds for the table or an error will be displayed. If either range is not provide...

Yes, this seems to be broken under Leopard. The switching seems to work only for each "script". So Roman forms one group (English, German, French, …) Unicode one group (Hebrew, Greek, etc.), and there are other groups.

Nisus Classic did not have automatic capitalization. However Nisus Classic spell checker did give you the option to flag words which were not capitalized.

The macro to average columns states that "empty cells are not counted so they do not affect the average, but cells with a zero in them are counted and they do affect the average". My tests show me that if the cell contains contains "0." or "0 " the behavior is as specif...

With an open file I would like to use a macro to find any text in Courier (if there is any) and replace it with Times. This seems simple and the Macro Find language has the u and U for considering attributes. But how can I enter ".+" with font attributes into Find and Replace? (You can of...

You can collect all the selected bits on the clipboard. Is that what you want?
Assuming you want the bits separated by returns the following will work:

Find and Replace '.+', '\0\n', 'aEs'
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