delete (not 'replace') part of record names

DEVONthink Automation
1

Hi
I have a bunch of html files authomatically downloaded as feeds whose title is oddly screwed up with html tags, i.e.:
part of the title another part

I’d like to automatically delete all this html tags and I’ve tried with the “replace text” script but it’s not possible to set the replate text to nothing.

Could you help me?

Thx Nestor

2

To replace text with nothing, enter a single space in the “enter replacement text” dialog. If the “text to find” is at the beginning or end of the title the script will not put a space there, it will merely delete the text.

3

Thanks Korm,
I’m trying to modify the replace script but it returns no result. What am I missing?

tell application id "com.devon-technologies.thinkpro2"
	try
		set this_selection to the selection
		if this_selection is {} then error "Please select some contents."
		
		repeat
			set search_string to "<em>"
			--display name editor "Replace Text" info "Enter text to find:"
			--if search_string is not "" then exit repeat
		end repeat
		
		set replacement_string to " "
		--display name editor "Replace Text" info "Enter replacement text:"
		
		set od to AppleScript's text item delimiters
		repeat with this_item in this_selection
			set current_name to name of this_item
			if current_name contains search_string then
				set AppleScript's text item delimiters to search_string
				set text_item_list to every text item of current_name
				set AppleScript's text item delimiters to replacement_string
				set new_item_name to text_item_list as string
				set the name of this_item to new_item_name
			end if
		end repeat
		
		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to od
		
	on error error_message number error_number
		if the error_number is not -128 then display alert "DEVONthink Pro" message error_message as warning
	end try
end tell
4

Perhaps try


Set replacement string to space
5

Tried also with


set replacement_string to space

but it doesn’t work. It seems that it works only if the text editor is displayed !?