At 8:34 -0500 1999.09.10, Jefferson R. Lowrey wrote: >This is what I want to do in perl. Now, I could do something a little >different, I could access the pieces of the selection individually - get >first record of selection - but I'd rather slurp the selection into a >variable, and work with it from there, as I do in the AppleScript. Fine. As I said: # So it depends on the app. Now, if you cannot coerce the data type with # as => $foo, then send me a printout of "print $selection->{DESC}->get" # and we can take a looksee at how we can best parse out the data therein. -- Chris Nandor mailto:pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ %PGPKey = ('B76E72AD', [1024, '0824090B CE73CA10 1FF77F13 8180B6B6']) ==== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ==== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-modules-request@macperl.org