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Re: Find/replace

  • Subject: Re: Find/replace
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:42:59 -0400


On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Robert Poland <email@hidden> wrote:
Wizards,

I am trying to do a script that will strip the leading 5 characters from file names.

set truncatedFileName to text 6 thru end of originalFileName

That's if it's really always 5 characters.  If you want to get rid of everything up to and including the first "_":

set text item delimiters to "_"
set truncatedFileName to text items 2 thru end of originalFileName as text

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Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>

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