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Re: Need a fast answer to a basic finder prob.
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Re: Need a fast answer to a basic finder prob.


  • Subject: Re: Need a fast answer to a basic finder prob.
  • From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:49:16 +0200

At 4:06 PM +0200 8/31/05, Jay Louvion wrote:
Sorry for the panic but I just can't seem to work this one out by trial.

I got a variable, localfiles that returns an alias list:

{alias "Groucho:Users:ptilu:Desktop:dev AScript:scan renamer:short test:51.10.jpg", alias "Groucho:Users:ptilu:Desktop:dev AScript:scan renamer:short test:51.11.jpg", alias "Groucho:Users:ptilu:Desktop:dev AScript:scan renamer:short test:51.12.jpg", alias "Groucho:Users:ptilu:Desktop:dev AScript:scan renamer:short test:51.13.jpg", alias "Groucho:Users:ptilu:Desktop:dev AScript:scan renamer:short test:51.14.jpg", alias "Groucho:Users:ptilu:Desktop:dev AScript:scan renamer:short test:51._1.jpg", alias "Groucho:Users:ptilu:Desktop:dev AScript:scan renamer:short test:51._2.jpg", alias "Groucho:Users:ptilu:Desktop:dev AScript:scan renamer:short test:51._3.jpg", alias "Groucho:Users:ptilu:Desktop:dev AScript:scan renamer:short test:51._4.jpg", alias "Groucho:Users:ptilu:Desktop:dev AScript:scan renamer:short test:51._5.jpg", alias "Groucho:Users:ptilu:Desktop:dev AScript:scan renamer:short test:51._6.jpg", alias "Groucho:Users:ptilu:Desktop:dev AScript:scan renamer:short test:51._7.jpg", alias "Groucho:Users:ptilu:Desktop:dev AScript:scan renamer:short test:51._8.jpg", alias "Groucho:Users:ptilu:Desktop:dev AScript:scan renamer:short test:51._9.jpg"}

I need to return a shorter alias list from this list of only the aliases containing "_", in order to replace those "_" by "0" (zeros).
And I just can't get it right. And I feel downright stoopid.


Tried: (wrapped in a "tell Finder")

set thelist to (every item of localfiles whose name contains "_") as alias list

But hey, that would be just _too_ simple.

For such a small list, you can use a loop and: name of (info for theFile) contains "_"


If the list was really bigger, you could use regular expressions, after having coerced your list to text with return as the text item delimiters.

Emmanuel
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