macOS Applescript: Seperate string by carriage return

[hiddenpremise]

Here is the gist of what I am trying to do

set x to do shell script "ls -a /"

which returns

".
..
.DS_Store
.vol
Applications
Desktop DB
Desktop DF
Developer
Library
Network
System
Users
Volumes
bin
cores
dev
etc
home
install
mach.sym
mach_kernel
mach_kernel.ctfsys
mnt
net
php.ini
private
sbin
tmp
usr
var"

I then want to get each item that "ls" returns. The way it is returned, every item is on a separate line. There may be more than one word on a line, but it is still the same item, for instance "Desktop DB." Does anyone know how to separate by carriage return (I'm assuming that is \p or \r)?

Thanks much,
Whit

 

[HiRez]

You can use text item delimiters. See this example.

 

[hhas]

I then want to get each item that "ls" returns.

every paragraph of (do shell script "ls -a /")

 

[hiddenpremise]

Thank you both!