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Re: Coercion of list to record
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Re: Coercion of list to record


  • Subject: Re: Coercion of list to record
  • From: Skeeve <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:10:46 +0100

Bastiaan Boertien wrote:
set recordItems to {}
repeat with x from 1 to count theList by 2
set end of recordItems to item x of theList & ":\"" & item (x + 1) of theList & "\"" as string
end repeat
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ", "
set recordAsString to ("{" & recordItems as string) & "}"
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
return run script recordAsString


This should do the job for you
Negative! Try it with
set theList to {"the answer", 42, "value for pi", 3.14159265359}

And this is (i guess) one of the reasons why Chris said, that there are ways (like yours) but that they are painful (as you just learned)...

There are ways to bludgeon AppleScript records into serving as associative arrays, but it's just kind of painful.

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