I'm writing a sub-routine in AppleScript to get text from a file and insert that text in a list of lists forming a dictionary.
Text File:
a:b
c:d
e:f
Expected list:
{{"a", "b"}, {"c", "d"}, {"e", "f"}}
Here's my code:
on getDictionary(filePath)
set dictionary to {}
set dictionaryFile to paragraphs of (read POSIX file filePath)
repeat with entry in dictionaryFile
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {":"}
set delimitedEntry to every text item of entry
copy delimitedEntry to the end of dictionary
end repeat
return dictionary
end getDictionary
I'm wondering if this is a good approach for my goal. It does produce the desired result.
