Re: Getting comments as a list... Delimiters???
Re: Getting comments as a list... Delimiters???
- Subject: Re: Getting comments as a list... Delimiters???
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 10:05:57 -0700
At 10:23 AM -0400 8/7/2001, Robbie Newton wrote:
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do you think its possible to write delimited information to the comments field with the intent of being able to retrieve that delimited information to separate fields elsewhere? (or from other scripts)
Yes.
I would consider using comma delimited fields at the end of the comments field. This is very possible. The real question is, when are you going to run the script? It would be sensible to do it as a folder action so that you'll catch it right when it is misfiled, but you'll probably need to start with a scan looking for misfiled items. I could recommend "walk folders" from Jon's Commands if you can easily tell whether a given file is in the proper folder. Otherwise you might be better off walking the folders yourself or using the Finder or other scripting additions.
Jon