Re: What happened to delimiters?
Re: What happened to delimiters?
- Subject: Re: What happened to delimiters?
- From: Kai <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 14:04:57 +0100
on Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:10:41 -0700, Christopher Nebel wrote:
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On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 12:41 PM, Kai wrote:
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>>> In spite of the vanishing 's', it still seems to work here. In fact,
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>>> although the stated limit is 2 delimiters, I get these results ...
[snip]
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> I must admit that, by trying to use more than 2 delimiters, I was
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> expecting to be hit by a -50 parameter error. (Are _you_ rewarded with
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> an error if you engage in this sort of irresponsible, anti-social
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> behaviour?)
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> As far as your own tests are concerned, I actually get similar
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> results... I'm tempted to assume that Read's delimiters are restricted
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> to single characters. For anything more ambitious, AppleScript's text
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> item delimiters would seem to be more appropriate.
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In order:
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1. The "s" has always disappeared, or at least has for a long time.
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2. "read" used to be limited to two delimiters, but that restriction
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was removed in AppleScript 1.6. The dictionary comment was never
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updated to reflect this. (I could have sworn there was a bug on that,
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but apparently not. There is now.)
As you're no doubt aware, there are also references to the restriction in
the AppleScript Scripting Additions Guide (pages 50, 52 & 110).
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3. Only the first character of any delimiter will be considered. This
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is not documented anywhere that I can find, and is arguably a bug, but
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it's possible that some scripts rely on it.
(I looked in quite a few places, but couldn't find any mention either.)
Many thanks for confirming those points, Chris.
--
Kai
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