Re: whose name contains space
Re: whose name contains space
- Subject: Re: whose name contains space
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:38:13 -0500
on 1/24/01 4:51 PM, Emmanuel at email@hidden wrote:
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At 20:15 +0100 24/01/01, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
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> on 1/24/01 11:19 AM, Emmanuel at email@hidden wrote:
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>>> tell application "Finder" to get first item whose name contains my space
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>> Works, not so well.
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> In what respect?
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Well, it seems that Smile (in its 1.7.5 vintage) does not like this line
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too much.
Ah. It worked perfectly for me in Script Editor. I think there's an unusual
issue lurking in this problem. The fact that "my space" works at all
suggests that there is a parent/child issue that shouldn't be encountered in
this context.
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