Re: Hex String Handlers
Re: Hex String Handlers
- Subject: Re: Hex String Handlers
- From: "Arthur J. Knapp" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 10:00:38 -0500
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Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 15:16:26 +0100
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From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Hex String Handlers
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Arthur J. Knapp wrote:
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> It has recently been brought to my attention that some versions
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> of AppleScript are not going to behave as I would expect them to
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> in the above. It is safer to explictly coerce the "c" from the
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> "c in s" statment to a string before assigning it to the text
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> item delimiters:
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> repeat with c in s
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> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to (c as string)
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Right: without the coercion, the TIDs are set to a reference.
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would have done it in the more "academic" way:
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set AppleScript's text item delimiters to contents of c
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possibly avoiding an unneeded coercion. So, just by curiosity, is there
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a precise reason I would be missing to use "c as string" instead?
No particular reason. :)
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Now, I nevertheless tried your original script -that is, without the
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coercion- here (OS 10.2.3, AS 1.9.1).
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It works.
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Do you have more info about the versions of AppleScript that could be
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affected? And about the contexts (just the TIDs, or more general)?
My "source" mentioned version 1.3.7, which I believe was under
Mac OS 8.6.
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