Alfred5 Split Argument - Add Max Number of Splits

[Sam Michel]

Hiya - it'd be great to add the option to the fab new Split Argument Utility in Workflows so that you can specify the max number of splits as per Python's split(). I'm using it to split an Alfred command that has two arguments separated by spaces, but the second argument can also contain multiple spaces and I only want it to split into two! Hopefully this is easy to implement. Hope that's useful.

 

Toodle Pip

Sam

 

[vitor]

That sounds a bit too specific for a new GUI option and the expected behaviour won’t be obvious (e.g. JavaScript also has an optional limit on split but it discards the extras instead of mashing them together).

 

Because you already know about Python’s split, it’s easy to replicate it with a Run Script Action. Create one with language set to /usr/bin/python3 and leave the rest as the default. In the code:

 

import sys
import json

separated = sys.argv[1].split(",", 1)

json_object = { "alfredworkflow": { "arg": separated } }
print(json.dumps(json_object))

 

Save it as a prefab and you’re good to go to reuse it whenever you need.

 

You only have to change the split part of line 4, everything else remains the same. This works because you can pass a JSON between Alfred objects to modify them or send additional information. In this case, you’re just passing the arguments already split as you want.