TIDs
TIDs
- Subject: TIDs
- From: Dave Stewart <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 09:58:57 -0800
On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 07:36 AM,
email@hidden wrote:
I am trying to learn AS and I see references to tid's. What does that
mean?
Look over some of the sample code thrown about in this list and you'll
figure it out pretty quickly (at least I think I did).
"Text Item Delimiters", or TID's, are separators between text items
(strings?). For example, with something like "drive/folder/file" the
TID is '/'. AppleScript allows us to change them to suit our needs.
Anyone want to correct me, I'm not very experienced with AS myself
(only worked with it once and it was in the last month), but this one
seems simple enough.
By the way, I have been getting a kick out of the "TID's 'n AS" thread.
My upshot is if you change something (like a TID) you should save the
previous state and restore it afterward. Using it doesn't always change
it though and I don't see how using it could screw anything up. So if
you CHANGE the TID, it's polite (safer) to save and restore it. We can
joke about the TID police all we want, but if you program defensively
you are LESS likely to encounter a weird bug in your code which
resulted from sloppiness (and others won't cringe when dealing with
your code).
TIA
YW
Dave Stewart
Aqua-flo (Goleta)
email@hidden
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