Re: changing part of a string
Re: changing part of a string
- Subject: Re: changing part of a string
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:33:24 -0500
Huh. For some reason i had it in my head that AS strings were immutable.
On 1/28/08, Luther Fuller <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2008, at 7:02 PM, Patrik B. wrote:
> > I have a path that I need to change slightly:
> > Example:
> > G5:bigfolder:2 color:myfolder:image1.eps -- I need to change "2
> > color" only
> > G5:bigfolder:CMYK images:myfolder:image1.eps
> > How do I replace out just "2color" to "CMYK color" is it possible
> > to search
>
> If you know, without searching, that you want to change text item 3,
> then ...
>
> set fullPath to "G5:bigfolder:2 color:myfolder:image1.eps"
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {":"}
> set text item 3 of fullPath to "CMYK images"
>
> If you need to search for and test the text item, you might want to ...
>
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {":"}
> then get a list of path items;
> determine which item to change;
> change it;
> convert list of path items back to a full path.
>
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