escape-string-applescript

Escape a string for use in AppleScript

Usage no npm install needed!

<script type="module">
  import escapeStringApplescript from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/escape-string-applescript';
</script>

README

escape-string-applescript

Escape a string for use in AppleScript

According to the AppleScript docs, \ and " have special meaning and should be escaped.

Install

$ npm install escape-string-applescript

Usage

import {execFile} from 'child_process';
import escapeStringAppleScript from 'escape-string-applescript';

const string = escapeStringAppleScript('"i like unicorns"');
//=> '\"i like unicorns\"'

const script = `set unicornMessage to "${string}"`;

execFile('osascript', ['-e', script]);

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