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Re: String works, variable that's a string does not.
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Re: String works, variable that's a string does not.


  • Subject: Re: String works, variable that's a string does not.
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:59:08 -0700

On Apr 28, 2004, at 3:45 PM, Lorin Rivers wrote:

"Set text_returned to text_returned as string" will not do it, even though it appears to make the change. here is a work around that works:


Thanks. Jeez, AppleScript, the Read-Only Programming Language

That's not really the language's fault, but is a somewhat nasty side effect of the changing of operating systems and text handling, I think.

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