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Re: What is the best way to get the name (without the extension) of a file?
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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: Thu, 05 May 2005 07:01:10 -0500

On 5/4/05 23:01, "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden> wrote:

> 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.

It's more that AppleScript's string manipulation kinda blows.

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guys who lead the survivors.
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