Re: Strange path
Re: Strange path
- Subject: Re: Strange path
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 08:46:12 -0700
On 7/21/04 7:59 AM, "John Azevedo" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Why am I getting the following result?
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set x to path to preferences
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set y to x & "foo" as text
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Result: "OS X:Users:zoff:Library:Preferences:/foo"
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Because you're trying to concatenate an alias (file) with a string. That
should create a list {alias "OS X:Users:zoff:Library:Preferences:", "foo"}
which you're then coercing 'as text'. The concatenation evidently is trying
to force the second item "foo" into the same data type (alias) as the first
item. That would be a putative disk "foo:" which doesn't exist. It's one of
those weird OS X things that it apparently ends up with something like 'file
"/foo". Never mind.
If you check the 'path to' scripting addition, you'll see that the result is
'alias' - it's not a string path. What you want is
set x to path to preferences as Unicode text -- or as string
set y to x & "foo"
Result: "OS X:Users:zoff:Library:Preferences:foo"
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My current workaround is This:
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set x to POSIX path of (path to preferences)
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set y to x & "foo" as text
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Result: "/Users/zoff/Library/Preferences/foo"
Here at least you're concatenating Unicode text with string, which works, as
Unicode text, then coercing (for some unknown reason best known to yourself)
to text.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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