Re: Replacing characters in filenames
Re: Replacing characters in filenames
- Subject: Re: Replacing characters in filenames
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 21:40:58 -0800
On 1/16/01 9:28 PM, "Chris Nebel" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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> On 1/16/01 6:17 PM, "Chris Nebel" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Of course, if we actually supported object model operations on strings, you
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>> could just say
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>> 'set every character of s where it is " " to "_"'. We're working on it.
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>> Really.
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> Now THAT is good news. 'whose' filters for lists and records too, dare one
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> ask?
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Yep. "Whose" is one of the most powerful features in AppleScript, in my
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opinion, and full support for it is long overdue. I cringe every time one of
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you posts a ten- or twenty-line script to work around its absence.
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Hurray! I'm glad that Apple has given you the wherewithal to get this done.
Probably we should thank the other Chris, you, and whoever else managed to
persuade the non-AS higher-ups to let you go ahead with this in the midst of
more pressing OS X claims on time. This is wonderful news.
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Paul Berkowitz