Re: Coercing from alias to original
Re: Coercing from alias to original
- Subject: Re: Coercing from alias to original
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:20:10 -0700
On 4/25/04 2:04 PM, "Adam K. Wuellner" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On Apr 25, 2004, at 3:19 PM, Michael Vogt wrote:
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> I'm wanting to count the number of items within folder f, but count
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> just sees the alias, and returns a value of 1.
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> How do I coerce the alias so that count can look at the actual folder
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> and figure out how much is inside?
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>
>
I think you need to count whatever 'f' contains, not 'f' itself:
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tell application "Finder"
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set folder_contents to every item of f
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count f
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end tell
In that case, don't you mean to say
tell application "Finder"
set folder_contents to every item of f
count folder_contents
end tell
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Paul Berkowitz
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