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  • Subject: checking for characters
  • From: Tait Sanders <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:59:59 +1000

I'm wanting to write a script that when an item is added to a folder,
after it is added - it checks the name of the folder to see if it has
'*.*'. - meaning for example 'firstname.lastname'. What I'm wanting to
check for is that there are characters and then a '.' followed by more
characters. I don't care how many characters before or after but there
has to be at least 1 one either side.

I've tried:

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items

set stanchar to B,
"a" or "b" or "c" or "d" or "e" or "f" or "g" or "h" or "i" or "j" or
"k" or "l" or "m" or "n" or "o" or "p" or "q" or "r" or "s" or "t" or
"u" or "v" or "w" or "x" or "y" or "z"

if name of folder b stanchar & "." & stanchar then
delete folder
end if

end adding folder items to

I've also tried:

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items

do script "find /Users/trc/Desktop/Transfer/"*.*"

set x to result

delete x
end adding folder items to

neither of these work.
can anyone help??

ta
tait





tait sanders
technical officer (trc)
fass unsw
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