How do I save/export as a TAB or SPACE delimited text file?

Question

Just upgraded from Apple Works to iWorks. The only text exporting option I see is .csv. Comma separation really screws up my needs. Is there a way to export as plain text? TAB or SPACE delimited?

Answer 1

Why not using the good old
--[SCRIPT clipboard2textFile]
on run
set tsv to the clipboard as text
set nomDuFichier to (do shell script "date " & quote & "+P%Y%m%d-%H%M%S" & quote) & ".txt"
set p2d to path to documents folder as text
tell application "System Events"
make new file at end of folder p2d with properties {name:nomDuFichier, file type:"TEXT"}
end tell -- System Events
set leDoc to p2d & nomDuFichier
write tsv to file leDoc
end run
--[/SCRIPT]
I have it installed as:
<startupVolume>:Users:<my account>:Library:Scripts:clipboard2textFile.scpt
No need for an extra application.
Copy to clipboard,
trigger the script from the menu,
the text file is available on the desktop.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France.) lundi 24 août 2009 16:25:13