Re: Searching for the equivalent of coercing to type "record"
Re: Searching for the equivalent of coercing to type "record"
- Subject: Re: Searching for the equivalent of coercing to type "record"
- From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 19:12:24 -0500
Steve,
Actually the pipes are the solution to the spaces in your file names.
They allow spaces in variable name. That's what they're for. I was just
surprised to see them pop up uninvited with the mixed-case variable
name that I chose.
On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 06:19 PM, Steve Cunningham wrote:
Prior to the run script construction, they're just text. So...
set tagName to "myTag"
set valuename to "3.1415"
run script ("{+class usrf;:{\"" & tagName & "\", \"" & valuename &
"\"}} as record")
--> {|myTag|:"3.1415"}
For reasons I don't care to waste cycles on; this returns the tag in
pipes if your tag contains mixed uppercase and lowercase text.
Paul Skinner
Thanks, Paul. That sucks about the vertical bars, however. I have
realized that since the field names in my text file have spaces in them
also, I will not be able to turn them into record field names after
all.
I'll file this away for the next time I have a file without mixed cases
and spaces in the name :-)
I learned something anyway.
Thanks to all who responded.
Steve
Paul Skinner
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