Re: What is the best way to get the name (without the extension) of a file?
Re: What is the best way to get the name (without the extension) of a file?
- Subject: Re: What is the best way to get the name (without the extension) of a file?
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 22:28:35 -0500
On 5/4/05 21:50, "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden> wrote:
> But this sort of string manipulation is probably best done within AppleScript
> itself. There are things that AS is so slow at doing that the extra overhead
> of running the shell and then a program from the shell is worth it, but I
> don't think stripping the extension off a filename is one of those things. :)
It's pretty hard to find anything beyond very simple string manipulation
that isn't better handled via do shell script.
--
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likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market for itself."
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