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Re: ANN: String to Property Coercion subroutines released
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Re: ANN: String to Property Coercion subroutines released


  • Subject: Re: ANN: String to Property Coercion subroutines released
  • From: has <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:33:17 +0100

Jeff Portenwrote:

>>In addition to, or as an alternative with additional functionality, users might be interested in the 'ConvertToString' AppleScript library found at the AppleMods repository, <http://applemods.sourceforge.net/>
>
>Sight unseen, the thing my subs do that ConvertToString doesn't is allow property setting without munging strings together.

ConvertToString is a useful vanilla hack for getting the textual representation of most AppleScript values. (See the TextCommands FBA on my site for a non-hackish Unicode-savvy alternative.)

Anyway, I think what you're really looking for is a way to store and retrieve values by key, so check out AppleMods' Types library. Its Dictionary object is robust and reasonably efficient; still not a patch on a native dictionary type, of course, but good enough for most purposes. Example:

    -- [auto-generated library loading code omitted for clarity]

    set d to _Types's makeDict()

    d's setItem("John", 31)
    d's setItem("Jane", 42)
    d's setItem("Jo", 23)
    d's countItems() --> 3
    d's getItem("Jane") --> 42
    d's getKeys() --> {"Jane", "Jo", "John"}

HTH

has
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