a) Spec

~~~~~~~~~~~
tm := TextModel new.
tm autoAccept: true. "otherwise you would have to pres ctrl+s to 'save' the result in memory"
tm openWithSpec. "this will open text window

"and then you can do"
tm text. "retrieve current text from the TextModel (returns an instance of Text)"
tm text: 'new content' "set a new content"
~~~~~~~~~~

b) Workspace

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
w := Workspace new.
w open.

w contents. "note that you must ctrl+s the content in the workspace for it to appear here (there's a yellow triangle in top right corner if the content is not saved"
w contents: '123'.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Workspace can also be saved/loaded to disk.

c) Playground

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(page := GTPlayPage new)
saveContent: 'initial content'.
(playground := GTPlayground new)
openOn: page.

page content. "retrieve the content; just like with Workspace you must ctrl+s when editing in the Playground itself"

"updating is a bit more complex, but it still seems to work"
page saveContent: 'new content'.
playground update.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Peter

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:

> On 04 Jan 2016, at 07:34, Tudor Girba <tudor@tudorgirba.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> On Jan 4, 2016, at 3:21 AM, Andy Burnett <andy.burnett@knowinnovation.com> wrote:
>>
>> I often find that I need to do simple manipulations to passages of text, e.g. remove all carriage returns, or extract email addresses etc.
>>
>> Pasting the text into a Playground doesn't work because there is always an apostrophe, or line break or... etc. and the playground complains.
>>
>> Is there a way to tell a Playground to just ignore the text, and give me a handle to its contents, so that I can then do something like
>>
>> playgroundId contents splitOn:Character space.
>>
>> Alternatively, is there another object that would be more appropriate? Playground would be really useful just because it is in the menu, and always available.
>
> The Playground does not yet allow you to do that. But, you can use the Clipboard:
>
> Clipboard clipboardText splitOn:Character space.

I do this a lot: using #clipboardText is a way to get to a copied string without any problems.

You can also do a Print It on 'Clipboard clipboardText asString' which will render the string using the Pharo quoting conventions.

> Cheers,
> Doru
>
>> Cheers
>> Andy
>
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