Re: Removing characters from a string
Re: Removing characters from a string
- Subject: Re: Removing characters from a string
- From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 16:58:04 -0500
On Monday, November 4, 2002, at 09:51 AM, John Delacour wrote:
At 4:48 pm -0500 29/10/02, Paul Skinner wrote:
if length of (n as string) is greater than 32 then set n to (n as
string)'s text 1 thru 32
In the interests of brvty.... it is unnec to chck the len, and this
will do:
set n to text 1 thru 32 of ("" & n)
hmm... I thought that this was something I didn't know, but it fails
for me with less than 32 characters.
OS 10.2.1/AS 1.9
JD
set s to "this/might not.be a legal:name, then again, it could be."
do shell script "perl -e '$_ = qq~" & s & "~; s~\\.|,|:|/~~g; print'"
text 1 through 32 of result
smartypants! :)
Perl rocks, but I haven't yet learned enough for it to be usable for
me.
Hmmmm.... This also fails for me if there's less than 32 characters.
--
Paul Skinner
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