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On 2007-08-21, at 13:06:49, Wayne Melrose wrote:

On 21/08/2007, at 10:02 PM, Stan Cleveland wrote:

set rec to {username:"wayne", emailadd:"email@hidden", blah:7}
set {username, emailadd, blah} to {username, emailadd, blah} of rec
username --> "wayne"
emailadd --> "email@hidden"
blah --> 7

that's not bad at all :)

Further to that question and to try and simplify your already good suggestion..

we can get the items of the rec variable by using

get items of rec
--result -> {"wayne", "email@hidden", 7}

set reco to {username:"wayne", emailadd:"email@hidden", blah:7}

reco as list

can we get the labels the same way?

No, unless you want to use an ugly hack which has some prerequisites. Basically you have to snag the error string and parse it for the labels:

try

reco as text

on error errs number errn

return errs

end try

-->"Can't make {username:\"wayne\", emailadd:\"email@hidden\", blah:7} into type string."

However there is a helper OSAX available: <http://www.latenightsw.com/freeware/RecordTools/index.html>.

References:
	>Re: working with records (From: Stan Cleveland <email@hidden>)
	>Re: working with records (From: Wayne Melrose <email@hidden>)