example of using AppleScript to read a text file with 4 tab delimited fields in it and echo the fields in each line

applescript-readtextfile

(* 
example of using AppleScript to read a text file with 4 tab delimited fields in it and echo the fields in each line

example input lines (tabs between each field except blank between date and time):
1 field2  field3  2013-10-25 20:57:48
2 field2  field3  2013-11-18 02:53:34

Output should look something like:

	(*item number: 1*)
	(*	tag: field2*)
	(*	item text: field3*)
	(*	item timestamp: 2013-10-25 20:57:48*)
	(*item number: 2*)
	(*	tag: field2*)
	(*	item text: field3*)
	(*	item timestamp: 2013-11-18 02:53:34*)

*)

set myfile to "notes.txt" -- input file
set tid to AppleScript's text item delimiters -- preserve initial text delimiters
set allRecords to read myfile using delimiter linefeed -- read file

repeat with aRecord in allRecords -- iterate on each line read from file

	if length of aRecord is greater than 0 then -- ignore null lines
		
		set text item delimiters to tab -- prepare to parse line using tab
		set theTextItems to text items of aRecord -- parse line into fields
		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tid -- restore text delimiters
		
		log "item number: " & item 1 of theTextItems
		log "	tag: " & item 2 of theTextItems
		log "	item text: " & item 3 of theTextItems
		log "	item timestamp: " & item 4 of theTextItems
		
	end if
	
end repeat

I have a large number of lines of text in a file that I want to import into Evernote as individual notes.
This script is the start of using AppleScript to read and parse the file.
Next will come how to send it to Evernote.