Re: (no subject) [Was] Access to a file via relative path
Re: (no subject) [Was] Access to a file via relative path
- Subject: Re: (no subject) [Was] Access to a file via relative path
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 18:11:15 +0200
At 3:04 PM +0200 15/10/02, Markus Wick wrote:
In addition to what Simon and Mr Tea replied, you will probably need
at some step to turn some path into a list, manipulate the last items
of the list, then turn the list back into a file path.
The basic tool for that is the "text item delimiters".
A short example to get you started without reading the documentation :-)
---------- untested
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":"
set thePath to thePath as text -- suppose it's a file reference or an alias
-- returns, e.g. "startupdisk:folder1:folder2:
data:tools:myfirstscript";
set theList to text items of thePath
-- makes the string into a list of strings
-- {"startupdisk", "folder1", "folder2", "data", "tools", "myfirstscript"}
set theList to (items 1 thru -3 of theList) & "filemakerdata"
-- {"startupdisk", "folder1", "folder2", "data", "filemakerdata"}
set theNewPath to theList as text
-- "startupdisk:folder1:folder2:
data:filemakerdata:";
set theNewPath to alias theNewPath
-- error: file "startupdisk:folder1:folder2:
data:filemakerdata:"; was
not found - doh!
--------------
Emmanuel
Sorry I can't reread, Eudora has turned everything into red
underlined. JD, can't you do a thing so that it recognize variable
names?
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