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Re: getting colon delimited path from POSIX path

At 1:10 am -0800 31/10/02, Paul Berkowitz wrote:

> POSIX file "/some/path"

will give you an AppleScript file. In fact, if you use an actual hardcoded
path, rather than a variable, it compiles with colons as you compile it.

But - if there are spaces in the path - you can't use 'quoted form' of the
POSIX path with single quotes, you need to \" escape-quote the path.


I don't see quite what you're getting at. Why _would_ anyone go to the unnecessary trouble of using 'quoted path' in this case?

I'd say it's best always to put the POSIX path into a variable in order to avoid the thing resolving on compilation, just as it is with date things.


tell app "TextEdit" to set pathPos to path of front document
set pathMac to POSIX file pathPos as alias
JJJJJJ
set pathPos to "/Users/jd/Documents/Hello World.rev"
set pathMac to POSIX file pathPos as alias
JJJJJJ
set dString to "31 Oct 03"
set d to date dString

-- JD
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