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Re: Characters in a file name - some progress
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Re: Characters in a file name - some progress


  • Subject: Re: Characters in a file name - some progress
  • From: Nigel Smith <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 14:03:00 +0100

On 6/7/04 19:56, "Adam K. Wuellner" <email@hidden> wrote:

>> set the text of text frame id 1004 of document 1 to name of document 1
>>
>> and there is the whole filename. However, I do want only the first 11
>> characters and I have no idea how to limit the text entry.
>
>
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
> (text items 1 through 11 of your_text) as string

Perhaps better would be the "text m thru n" construct:

-- all one line
set the text of text frame id 1004 of document 1 to (text 1 thru 11 of
(name of document 1))

The brackets are there as more to show you how it is working than because
the syntax requires it.

HTH,

Nigel
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