Re: changing part of a string
Re: changing part of a string
- Subject: Re: changing part of a string
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:53:13 -0600
On Jan 28, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Ed Stockly wrote:
Huh. For some reason i had it in my head that AS strings were
immutable.
I think Mark is right. This does not work on my mac:
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"
This does:
set oldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {":"}
set fullPath to every text item of "G5:bigfolder:2
color:myfolder:image1.eps"
set item 3 of fullPath to "CMYK Images"
set fullPath to fullPath as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims
So, I checked the code I wrote just days ago. I was under the
impression that I had written
set text item n of ... to ...
but I had not. And it does not work.
You DO have to convert the path name to a list; modify the list; then
convert back to a full path.
And ... when creating the new full path, you have to qualify each
item before adding it to the path name, otherwise, it's just a string
that can't be used as an alias. In the example above, the new path is
"G5:bigfolder:CMYK images:myfolder:image1.eps", but the folders "CMYK
images" and "myfolder" will have to be created if they do not exist.
You'll need to move or copy the file "image1.eps".
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