Re: String works, variable that's a string does not.
Re: String works, variable that's a string does not.
- Subject: Re: String works, variable that's a string does not.
- From: Lorin Rivers <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 22:46:35 -0500
On Apr 28, 2004, at 5:59 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:
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.
Hang on a second. You're telling me that "foo" <> "foo" is not the
languages fault? And that a work around that involves crawling through
the string character-by-character converting it from unicode (which it
ain't, or shouldn't be) to ascii being the solution, is also not the
language's fault. OK, it's not the language's fault, it's the fault of
the people who write and maintain the language.
Don't get me wrong. I genuinely appreciate your help, and I know that
you, personally, provide I great deal of help here. Also, know that I
love AppleScript as a tool. I just wish it were easier to write...
But don't be an apologist. It should not be necessary to convert a
string to a string and even if it were, saying foo as string should be
sufficient.
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