Checking for return at start of string (OS 10.1)
Checking for return at start of string (OS 10.1)
- Subject: Checking for return at start of string (OS 10.1)
- From: Simon Forster <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 10:40:00 +0100
This one is starting to do my head in...
I've parsed out a file to a list using return as the text item
delimiter. Gives me something like:
{"drwx------ folder 5 Sep 19 15:07 ~nethues_rw", "
drwx------ folder 4 Oct 03 10:51 ~noblesvenues", "
drwx------ folder 28 Sep 20 16:53 ~Regus", "
drwx------ folder 13 Oct 01 17:25 ~rettie", "
drwx------ folder 33 Aug 30 10:41 ~riley", "
drwx------ folder 68 Jul 26 12:02 ~RileyNew
2001-07-26", "
drwx------ folder 14 Aug 13 14:39 ~RileyNew
2001-08-13", "
drwx------ folder 14 Aug 30 12:05 ~RileyNew
2001-10-12", "
drwx------ folder 15 Mar 28 2001 ~wiccaways", "
"}
Doing some further processing, I want to check whether each item in the
list starts with a return. So:
repeat with this_item in dir_listing
if text item 1 of this_item is equal to "
" then
never evaluates to true. Tried begins with, coercing to string,
specifying the return as return, ascii characters (both Mac and Unix)
etc.
Returning text item 1 of this_item gives me the expected result of:
"
"
but I cannot get the conditional to work with a return, however I
specify that return.
I assume I must be doing something really silly - which in my slightly
"morning after the night before" state I just cannot see.
I'll now work around this but if someone could tell me what's going on
here I'd be grateful.
TIA
Simon Forster
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