Output text in table form

Question

Hi all,
I have a short little applescript that does some math and then outputs a mix of the results and plain text in tabular form, and copies it into a Word document. (I'm a complete novice at AS, this is maybe my third script).
At present, the script essentially hand-writes the table by including the tabs and returns, e.g. this excerpt:
set gradingScale to "A+" & tab & Aplus & return & "A" & tab & Astraight & return
Is there a more efficient way to tell AS to output as a table? Like say, listing everything that belongs in column 1, or somesuch?
thanks, Daiya

Answer 1

table_result starts out at the top of the script as a blank string variable. In the example my repeat loop will run three times (the length of column_a) with the integer x. On each successive run x increases by 1, so we'll get the first, then second, then third items of column_a and column_b. Because we are fed these values one at a time, we must concatenate them to the values that we already got on previous runs through the repeat loop. By setting the value of table_result to itself, plus a bunch of new data, we can thus build the table line by line.
The result term is just a convenient way to get the result of the previous line of code. Here are a few more examples.
click here to open this script in your editor<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">set x to 1
repeat 3 times
say x
set x to x + 1
end repeat
repeat with z from 3 to 1 by -1
say z
end repeat
"Go AppleScript!"
say result
</pre>