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  • Subject: List of length one
  • From: Gil Dawson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 14:55:23 -0700

Title: List of length one
Could someone please help me understand something about listsin 9.2.2 AppleScript?  I notice this does not seem to happen with Tiger and Smile.

To operate on a folder with many files in it, I wrote, using MacOS 9.2.2 and Script Editor 1.8.3,...

tell application "Finder" to ¬
  set FilesList to name of every file in folder EVCNdbFolder ¬
                whose name begins with "evcn"

     --> {"evcnall070514.fp5", "EVCNfxd070514.fp5"}

...which produces what could be described as a list of length 2, containing two strings representing the two matching files.  All good.

However, if I change the "whose" criterion, so that only one file matches...

tell application "Finder" to ¬
  set FilesList to name of every file in folder EVCNdbFolder ¬
                whose name begins with "evcnall"

     --> "evcnall070514.fp5"

...which is not a list but a string of length 17, containing 17 characters.

Is this a bug in 9.2.2 AppleScript?  I notice it does not seem to happen with Tiger and Smile.

How does one handle this situation? 

if ((class of FilesList) as string = "string") then ¬
   set FilesList to {FilesList}

...seems to fix the problem.  Is there a better way?

--Gil
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