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Re: TID's in Snow Leopard
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Re: TID's in Snow Leopard


  • Subject: Re: TID's in Snow Leopard
  • From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:47:29 +0200

Le 30 août 09 à 15:40, Luther Fuller a écrit :

Here is a small snippet of code I've been using for years without error in 10.4 and 10.5 ...

set x to ""
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {tab}
set y to (text item 1 of x)

If x = "", then y = "" without error. But, in 10.6 the last line returns the error message

	Can't get text item 1 of "".

It took me more than an hour to find this one line of code.

The problem is to decide whether it is conceptually right to consider that the empty string has a text item: can an empty string be decomposed into chunks?.


And things were even a bit more complicated under Tiger, since one had:
	text items of ""
	--> {}
	text items of ("" as unicode text)
	--> {""}
when the TIDs had their default value.
Perhaps have you been somewhat lucky under 10.4... ;-)

In fact, according to the result you have described, it seems that 10.6 just reverted to the behavior that AppleScript has always obeyed up to 10.3.

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