Re: Manipulate the last item in a string

• Subject: Re: Manipulate the last item in a string
• From: Yvan KOENIG <email@hidden>
• Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:27:26 +0200
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On Jun 17, 2006, at 10:54 AM, kai wrote:

As you know, AppleScript's Text Item Delimiters property consists of a list of strings used as delimiters. Its initial value is a single-item list containing an empty string: {""}. AppleScript has (thus far) used only the first delimiter in the list - and a regular string works just as well. In fact, I've found it generally faster (especially in routines that frequently switch the tids value) to use strings. However, when finally restoring the property to its initial value, I tend to revert to the list form - to preserve at least some semblance of consistency... ;-)

Surely the best way of maintaining consistency is to restore the TIDs to whatever they were before you changed them rather than the default. This is a better solution because it'll restore them to the script's previous setting which may be different from the default.

set t to "1234.jpg, 5678.jpg, 4444.jpg, 5555.jpg, 9876.jpg, 6969.jpg."
set {oldTIDs, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, ", "}
set t to t's text 1 thru text item -2 & " & " & t's text item -1
set text item delimiters to oldTIDs

Andrew

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