Re: How do I delete the 1st three characters from a variable
Re: How do I delete the 1st three characters from a variable
- Subject: Re: How do I delete the 1st three characters from a variable
- From: kai <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 23:30:20 +0000
On 3 Jan 2006, at 23:08, Shane Stanley wrote:
On 4/1/06 9:57 AM, "Matt Deatherage" <email@hidden> wrote:
The following also work, don't change upon compiling, and are
clearer to read
(also IMHO):
set mynewimagename to text 4 through end of myImageName --Mark
Lively
set mynewimagename to (characters 4 through end of myImageName)
as text
Ignoring the opinion about -1 vs end (which I disagree with, but
again only
as a matter of opinion), these two are quite different. The latter
is more
inefficient -- it creates an unnecessary list and then coerces it
-- and it
also potentially raises issues if myImageName is Unicode text by
virtue of
its coercion to string class.
The result of such a coercion is also dependent on the current value
of AppleScript's text item delimiters. This can (and occasionally
does) catch folks out - especially if they're not fully aware of the
implications.
---
kai
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