Re: can I do this better?
Re: can I do this better?
- Subject: Re: can I do this better?
- From: Bill Hoffman <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 07:25:15 -0700
On Friday, June 14, 2002, at 11:39 PM, Jon Pugh wrote:
At 8:06 PM -0700 6/14/02, Geoff Canyon wrote:
In chunks, the above could be accomplished with:
put word 1 to -1 of tString into tString
I don't remember if HyperCard or SuperCard support negative chunk
expressions. If they don't, the expression would be a bit more
complicated, but still a single line.
HyperCard does not support negative indices.
Also, the example above produces a list. You probably want to coerce
it to a string (although this example leaves tString unchanged):
set tString to word 1 to -1 of tString as string
Presumably you'd want to change 1 or -1 to something more interesting.
set tString to "Here's what i say to that: are you sure this will work
in _ALL_ ****ing cases correctly?? "
set TID to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to space
set tString to words 1 thru -1 of tString as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to TID
tString
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Bill Hoffman
email@hidden
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