performing a regex in a 'run nsapplescript' workflow action

[Wolfspyre]

Hi there!

 

I have a workflow which will open a new chrome browser to our jira server for a particular ticket:

 

it fires off a keyword with an argument, and goes to a 'run NSAppleScript' action:

---

on alfred_script(q)

 

    set theText to "https://my.jira.fqdn/browse/" & q

tell application "Google Chrome"

    tell (make new window)

        set URL of active tab to theText

    end tell

    activate

end tell

end alfred_script

---

 

what I want to do is give myself the ability to not type the FULL ticket number, for tickets inside the project I work on the most. Most of the tickets I have look like this:

 

FOOBAR-1234

 

some string of text, a hyphen, and a set of digits.

 

I'd like to extend my current workflow such that I can either enter "SOMEPROJECT-1234" which would turn the url into "https://my.jira.fqdn/browse/SOMEPROJECT-1234"

 

OR

 

I could enter '1234' which would turn the url into

"https://my.jira.fqdn/browse/FOOBAR-1234"

 

How might I do this most efficiently?

 

Thanks so much in advance for your help!

[dfay]

formatting here is a little weird but this code should work.  Regex is overkill for this task, I think:

 

 

property lower_alphabet : "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

property upper_alphabet : "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"

 

set c to the first character of q

 

if c is in lower_alphabet or c is in upper_alphabet then

set theText to "https://my.jira.fqdn/browse/" & q

else

set theText to "https://my.jira.fqdn/browse/FOOBAR-" & q

end if

Edited July 18, 2014 by dfay

[Wolfspyre]

that didn't end up working, actually.

 

For future people looking, this is how I ended up getting it working:

on alfred_script(q)
  if q contains "-" then
    set theText to "https://my.jira.fqdn/browse/" & q
  else
    set theText to "https://my.jira.fqdn/browse/FOOBAR-" & q
  end if
  tell application "Google Chrome"
    tell (make new window)
      set URL of active tab to theText
    end tell
    activate
  end tell
end alfred_script

since every ticket contains a project, a hyphen, and a ticketnumber, I can just see if the string has a hyphen. Crude, but generally functional.

Edited July 20, 2014 by Wolfspyre