Re: list coersion...
Re: list coersion...
- Subject: Re: list coersion...
- From: Gary Lists <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:32:17 -0400
On or about 6/10/03 1:01 PM, John Tuttle wrote:
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I have a script which pulls the contents of a value list from FileMaker
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Pro as a string.
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The resulting string is in the following format:
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"item1\ritem2\ritem3\ritem4"
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I can't seem to get this into a form that Applescript can understand as
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a list with multiple items.
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All I can coax is a list with one item "item1\ritem2\ritem3\ritem4".
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I am trying to get a list of 4 items.
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Any suggestions?
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--
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John Tuttle
This statement:
set fmVL to "item1\ritem2\ritem3\ritem4"
-- Compiles to:
set fmVL to "item1
item2
item3
item4"
-- so...
set text item delimiters to return
set asVL to text items of fmVL as list
--> {"item1", "item2", "item3", "item4"}
HTH
--
Gary
MacOS 9.1 / "9 is Fine"
OMM: osa:AS 183 / osa:JS 103 / FM 55 / BB601 / Smile 188
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