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Re: Weeding out items from list


  • Subject: Re: Weeding out items from list
  • From: "Nigel Garvey" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 12:53:14 +0000

kai wrote on Sat, 26 Nov 2005 23:46:28 +0000:

>And pushing the "Ouch!" factor to its limit, anyone for a thoroughly
>perverse, one-line version of that? ;-)
>
>tell application "Finder" to tell (a reference to (disks whose local
>volume is false and name is not "Network")) to set listing to name of
>item (((exists) as integer) + 1) of {{name:{}}, it}

Oh really, kai! And people blame _me_ for that sort of code!  8-|

This version also works with systems that predate boolean-to-integer
coercions:

  tell application "Finder" to tell (a reference to (disks whose local
volume is false and name is not "Network")) to set listing to name of
item ((count ((exists) as string)) - 3) of {it, {name:{}}}

NG

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