Re: Strange problem with text item delimiters
Re: Strange problem with text item delimiters
- Subject: Re: Strange problem with text item delimiters
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 20:09:34 +0200
At 10:35 AM -0400 27/06/03, David Crowe wrote:
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I had the following code:
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tell application "Finder"
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-- set variable 'aFile' to an alias
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set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."
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set ParsedFilename to text items of (name of aFile)
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...
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end
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This code worked, and then suddenly stopped working, producing a null list given a string like "afilename.doc" (not even a list with a single item).
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I replaced the code with:
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set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."
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set x to (name of aFile)
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set ParsedFilename to text items of (x as string)
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... and it started working again.
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Can anyone explain what happened? I'm using OSX with Smile as the editor, but the code is executed via FileMaker.
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(I mean, I'm happy that I've found a workaround, but I really don't like mysteries like this).
It has something to see with the fact that the Finder returns the names of files as Unicode.
Emmanuel
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