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Re: interesting discovery (trying to get record labels as strings)
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Re: interesting discovery (trying to get record labels as strings)


  • Subject: Re: interesting discovery (trying to get record labels as strings)
  • From: Chris Nebel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 14:10:39 -0800
  • Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.

has wrote:

> try this:
>
> {{a:1}} as string
>
> and the results are _much_ more interesting. Try it and see.

This is a known bug in AppleScript -- what you're seeing is the raw contents
of an Apple Event Manager record. I think this "works" on pretty much all
versions of AppleScript, but I'm sure we'll break it eventually, so don't get
too attached to it.


--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering


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