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Hello,
Could someone tell me why when I copy then paste this text it results in the first characters of every line disappearing? At least that is what appears to be happening here. I say appears because I have already copied and pasted the below AppleScript and on every line there are characters missing from the beginning. My uncertainty arises after that though because when I type text after the pasted material it also seems to be missing the first characters. I have a screenshot here of the entered text (after the pasting) highlighted while being entered due to spelling and as you see the highlighted portion seems to start before the text enter box. Note: This has made me wonder if the text will show after posting.
I should also let you know that I tried to paste the material to TextEdit and had no problem there. Furthermore I tried to copy the text from TextEdit and paste here in Apple Discussions but received the same result of missing characters. At the very end I copied and pasted something from Notes. It worked fine - no missing characters.
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  -- initialize
  set script_error_prefix to "An error occurred: "
  set user_error_prefix to "Your answer can't be right. "
  set user_disqualified_prefix to "I'm sorry, you don't qualify."
  -- introduction
  display dialog ("Welcome to Jobs 'R Us.") & return & return & ("I'll begin by asking you about yourself.") & (" Shall we get started?")
  -- get birthdate
  repeat
  try
  display dialog ("What year were you born?") default answer ""
  set answer to text returned of result
  set birth_year to answer as integer
  exit repeat
  on error number -1700
  display alert script_error_prefix message ("You must enter a number.")
  end try
  end repeat
  set this_year to year of (current date)
  if birth_year < (this_year - 65) then
  error user_disqualified_prefix number 5001 -- too old
  else if birth_year > this_year then
  error user_error_prefix number 5002 -- future date
  else if birth_year > (this_year - 18) then
  error user_disqualified_prefix number 5003 -- too young
  end if
  -- get current_age
  repeat
  try
  display dialog ("How old are you?") default answer ""
  set asnwer to text returned of result
  set current_age to answer as integer
  exit repeat
  on error number -1700
  display alert script_error_prefix message ("You must enter a number.")
  end try
  end repeat
  if current_age is not equal to (this_year - birth_year) then
  error user_error_prefix number 5004
  end if
  -- conclusion
  display dialog ("Congratulations. You're hired!") buttons {"OK"} default button "OK"
on error error_message number error_number
  if error_number is -128 then
  -- user cancelled
  display dialog ("'Bye. Return again soon!") buttons {"OK"} default button "OK"
  return
  else if error_number > 5000 and error_number ≤ 5004 then
  -- user error
  if error_number is 5001 then -- too old
  set full_message to error_message & return & return & ("We don't hire people over 65.")
  else if error_number is 5002 then -- not yet born
  set full_message to error_message & return & return & (birth_year & " is in the future.") & (" We don't hire time travlers.")
  else if error_number is 5003 then -- too young
  set full_message to error_message & return & return & ("We don't hire people under 18.")
  else if error_number is 5004 then -- wrong age
  set full_message to error_message & return & return & ("Your real age is ") & this_year - birth_year & (". We don't hire people who can't count.")
  end if
  display dialog full_message & (" Go Away!") buttons {"OK"} default button "OK"
  else
  -- unexpected error
  display dialog ("An unexpected error occurred.") & return & return & ("Sorry, but we'll have to stop for now.") buttons {"OK"} default button "OK"
  end if
end try
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Answer 1

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