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: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 00:01:18 -0400
Better how? Easier, maybe, if you come from a UNIX
background. More tersely, sure. But more efficiently?
I dunno. Something you have to check on a case by case basis, I
think. Certainly a compiled executable like sed is faster at
doing string manip than either the shell or AS, but you have to get to
a point where that matters more than the startup overhead.
On 5/4/05, John C. Welch <email@hidden> wrote:
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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