Re: Referencing a folder with "~" in the name
Re: Referencing a folder with "~" in the name
- Subject: Re: Referencing a folder with "~" in the name
- From: Simon Forster <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:41:34 +0100
- Resent-date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:42:45 +0100
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On Tuesday, April 23, 2002, at 01:14 PM, Simon Forster wrote:
How can I reference "folder
"remoteMountedDisk:folderName:folderName:~restOfFolderName""? The usual
suspects of escaping the tilde or saying (ascii character 126) don't
work.
OK, not 100% sure what's going on here but it seems that I can reference
something with a tilde in it. Rather, the problem was one I've
experienced elsewhere where folder ("string" & "string" & "string") does
not seem to be cast to a string unless one does so explicitly. In fact
it's not quite that simple but the behaviour does vary between OS 9 and
OS X.
More specifically:
property my_web_server : {volume:"Oxford"}
tell application "Finder" to select folder (volume of
my_web_server & ":" & "yadda")
seems to fail on OS 10.1.4 (and 10.1.3). However, if I explicitly cast
the chunk in brackets to a string (volume of my_web_server & ":" &
"yadda" as string) it works fine. I guess that "volume of my_web_server"
doesn't return a string in OS X (while it seems to in OS 9) so the
explicit casting is a requirement.
ATB
Simon Forster
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