doAppleScript
- command, function
- The doAppleScript command (and function) executes a text string as AppleScript code. Use this along with the merge function to insert values into the AppleScript. For example, the following will count the number of words in a Microsoft Word document whose name is in the local variable wordDocName:
put doAppleScript of merge of {{
tell application "Microsoft Word"
open "[[wordDocName]]"
count words in window 1
end tell
}}
This can also be called as a command using any of these formats:
do AppleScript aScript
do aScript as AppleScript
doAppleScript aScript
- Related: do