Re: Strange path
Re: Strange path
- Subject: Re: Strange path
- From: John Stewart <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:05:40 -0400
On 07/21/04 at +0100 Nigel Garvey said this
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You probably have AppleScript's text item delimiters set to "/". As Paul
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says, concatenating a string to an alias produces a list. The oblique
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stroke would be introduced if you had the TID's set to that when you
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coerced the list to string. The default setting for TID's is {""}.
Nigel & Paul
A two item list (or barring that an error) is what I expected here but didn't
get, did you try it? It seems there is an unexpected backward coercion
somewhere. I'd like to know if it's just on my machine.
set x to path to preferences
set y to x & "foo" as text
--> G5:Users:john:Library:Preferences:foo
JBS
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