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Re: newbie question..

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 03:24 PM, Martha Espinosa wrote:

I'm beating my head on this one...

In a Eudora message I have a list of items separated by a comma such as:

Martha, was, born, on, 12/04/03 23:00:43

What I am trying to do is get the information from the body of the message and store to variables. I am having problems with the date. I just want the date and I want to forget about the time

Try this, Martha

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set theText to "Martha, was, born, on, 12/04/03 23:00:43"
set oldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ", " -- comma, space
set theLongDate to text item -1 of theText
--> 12/04/03 23:00:43
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " " -- space
set JustTheDate to text item 1 of theLongDate
--> 12/04/03
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims

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djb

Dave Balderstone
Director, Production and Creative Services
Western Producer Publications, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Phone: 306-665-3545 Fax: 306-933-3536
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