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Re: Short form


  • Subject: Re: Short form
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 12:37:29 -0700


On Sep 5, 2008, at 12:19 PM, Script2 wrote:

I tried this but does not work. What am I doing wrong, it just displays CN
not found or TO not found.


set sname to characters 19 thru 20 of aWord

That returns a list of characters, not a string. In other words, it returns {"C","N"} instead of "CN"


You need

set sname to text 19 thru 20 of aWord

-- Michelle

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