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Re: Text items


  • Subject: Re: Text items
  • From: Adam Bell <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:52:54 -0400

Title: Re: Text items
I haven't followed this carefully, but given the naming convention rigidities, wouldn't this work:

set names1 to {"231-001_M.tif", "231-001.tif", "231-001.jpg", "231-001-a_M.tif", "231-001-a.tif", "231-001-a.jpg"}
--
with the assurance of only one "." and only "_M" preceding it to deal with:
set bname to {}
repeat with aName in names1
     
if aName contains "_M" then
            
set bname's end to aName's text 1 thru ((offset of "_M" in aName) - 1)
 
else
           
set bname's end to aName's text 1 thru ((offset of "." in aName) - 1)
  
end if
end repeat

Same answer, anyway.

Adam

At 10:33 PM +0000 1/16/07, kai wrote:
On 16 Jan 2007, at 22:17, I wrote:
Actually, I missed a trick there.

And I was still not thinking straight. Sorry. Please replace that last effort with:

-------------------

to strip_extensions from l to e
   set tid to text item delimiters
set text item delimiters to return
      set l to (l as Unicode text) & return
   repeat
          set text item delimiters to "."
        if (count l's text items) is 1 then exit repeat
        set text item delimiters to "." & paragraph 1 of l's text item -1
               set l to l's text items
        set text item delimiters to ""
          set l to l as Unicode text
      end repeat
      set text item delimiters to e & return
  set l to l's text items
set text item delimiters to return
      set l to text 1 thru -2 of (l as Unicode text)
  set text item delimiters to tid
l's paragraphs
end strip_extensions

set names1 to {"231-001_M.tif", "231-001.tif", "231-001.jpg", "231-001-a_M.tif", "231-001-a.tif", "231-001-a.jpg"}

set names1 to strip_extensions from names1 to "_M"
--> {"231-001", "231-001", "231-001", "231-001-a", "231-001-a", "231-001-a"}

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kai


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