Re: Why are these different?
Re: Why are these different?
- Subject: Re: Why are these different?
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:21:03 -0800
On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 02:51 AM, Emmanuel wrote:
At 11:20 AM +0100 26/2/02, Mr Tea wrote:
'last item of (list folder myFolder)' returns the last item according
to
alphabetical order
list folder returns the contents of the folder as a list, sorted in
lexicographic order.
Actually, "list folder" doesn't guarantee that the list will be in any
particular order -- it just gives them to you as they come back from the
File Manager. For HFS and HFS+ disks, this happens to be in
lexicographic order, but it's not for other disk formats, e.g., NFS.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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