Re: Looping through a list with only one item problem?
Re: Looping through a list with only one item problem?
- Subject: Re: Looping through a list with only one item problem?
- From: AppleScript Guru <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:26:13 -0500
Gregory,
on 3/19/02 5:39 PM, you said:
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I have written a script that performs as expected with one exception; when a
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list contains only one item, the script will fail. The loop will attempt to
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read each character of the single item text name instead of the single item
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as a string.
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What would be the proper way to force a single item in a list (or ?) to be
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in fact a single item or is a single item list by definition NOT a list?
---> You can coerce the names to a list as you retrieve them. I.e.,
set my_File_Name_List to name of every item of folder "test" of startup disk
Another option would be to use the "list folder" command, which will always
return a list. I.e.,
set my_File_Name_List to list folder alias "Macintosh HD:test:"
The above doesn't need to be in a finder tell block either.
-Ben
Benjamin S. Waldie
Write Track Media
(AppleScript GuRu)
AppleScript Web Site:
http://www.AppleScriptGuru.com
http://www.wtmedia.com
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