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Re: Today's Question - poke a character in a string
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Re: Today's Question - poke a character in a string


  • Subject: Re: Today's Question - poke a character in a string
  • From: "Arthur J. Knapp" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 10:40:22 -0400

> Subject: Re: Today's Question - poke a character in a string
> From: email@hidden (Michael Sullivan)
> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 01:50:09 -0400

>> On Wednesday, July 31, 2002, at 02:37 AM, Andy Wylie wrote:
>>> set (MyLongString's text items)'s item 400 to ">"


> But oddly enough it works if you do this:
>
> set (MyLongString's text items)'s item 400 to ">"
> set MyLongString to result as string

Works where and how? MyLongString gets filled with ">".

> Or in classic functional fashion:
>
> set foo to (set (foo's text items)'s item 400 to ">") as string

This obviously does not work. Am I missing something?


{ Arthur J. Knapp, of <http://www.STELLARViSIONs.com>
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