Re: How to use delimiters in Standard Additions file read/write
Re: How to use delimiters in Standard Additions file read/write
- Subject: Re: How to use delimiters in Standard Additions file read/write
- From: Cannonball <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 06:46:51 -0800
At 8:30 AM +0000 3/19/01, Nigel Garvey wrote:
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I'm afraid I *can't* explain your results. What Victor and I have
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described is exactly what's needed with Mac OSses 8.6 and 9.0.4. Perhaps
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it's something that's been "fixed" or altered in 9.1.
Victor Yee wrote:
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I'm on 9.1 and "as list" is required with Standard Additions at 1.5.5. Is
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it possible this is an invisible coercion? Or that my 9.1 isn't, in some
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way, up to date? I'm on a G4 PCI and upgraded to 9.1 using the multiple
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file download that was available when
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announced.
This is very interesting, because when I removed all my non-standard
additions and run it, I still get:
{"If", "you", "know", "where", "to", "look", "for", "the"}
set thefile to choose file
set filRef to open for access thefile
set thelist to read filRef using delimiter {" "}
close access filRef
thelist
I'm on OS 9.1, AppleScript 1.6.
Devon