Question

I have the following function that does string splitting:

on splitText(aString, delimiter)
    set retVal to {}
    set prevDelimiter to AppleScript's text item delimiters
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {delimiter}
    set retVal to every text item of aString
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to prevDelimiter
    return retVal
end splitText

When used by itself, it works ok

log splitText(“http://google.com|/Users/pistacchio/Desktop/google.jpg”, “|”)

But when I use it within the context I need, I get a -1708 error

tell application "Safari"
    activate
    repeat with row in linesToPrint
        log splitText("http://google.com|/Users/pistacchio/Desktop/google.jpg", "|")
    end repeat
end tell

linesToPrint is an array of strings

Any help?

Answer 1

When using a handler from inside an application tell statement, you need to use the terms of me or my to indicate that the term is from your script, and not something that the application needs to do.