Return results of cURL shell script direct to AS?

Is there a way to return the results of a cURL shell command (which I have working fine) directly to the AS script? The result of the cURL command is a small text file.
Or am I stuck with opening the resulting file to read its contents?

The solution is simple - your original shell example uses quoted strings, and you can't just copy/paste that into an AppleScript because AppleScript also uses quotes to delineate strings.
The answer lies in escaping the quotes, so that AppleScript knows to pass the actual quote symbol to the shell (and therefore onto curl) rather than have AppleScript interpret it itself.
do shell script "/usr/bin/curl --data \"browserRequest=true&lat1=43%C2%B043%2738.11%22&lat1Hemisphere=N&lon1=69%C2%B0 4 9%2752.85%22&lon1Hemisphere=W&startYear=2013&startMonth=1&startDay=1&resultForm at=csv\" http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag-web/calculators/calculateDeclination"
Note how the quotes surrounding your data are escaped.
(Note also that the above command generates a 500 error off the server because the parameter data is invalid, but I assume you can fix that)

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I think I understand what's going wrong. If I select a message in my Inbox, the shell statement
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works. If I select a message from an On My Mac box, though, I can't get theAccount in Main in the first place because there's no account associated with those boxes. That's why I set up the "try" in Main and the conditional in the shell. I see now that
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fails if there are any containers. So, I need a "set theBox" statement in Main that produces a proper path to the message, regardless of where it's located. If I can formulate that, a single "set theMessage" in the shell will suffice, without having worry about whether there's an account. I've experimented with "path to" and will continue casting about, but if the solution is apparent to you, please let me know.
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