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Re: Simple newbie question


  • Subject: Re: Simple newbie question
  • From: CYB <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:51:24 -0500
  • Thread-topic: Simple newbie question

Title: Re: Simple newbie question
On Jun 18, 2009, at 9:50 AM, CYB wrote:

As you can see there are many ways to solve a task, in my opinion is more easy this one

tell
application "Finder"
  set MyFile to alias "Lipstick:Users:g5:Desktop:HelveticaNeu.zip"
  set oldTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters
  set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"."}
  set NameNoExtension to text item 1 of (get name of MyFile)
  set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldTID
end tell

 
The problem with that is that a file's name may have more than one period in it.  So instead of "text item 1 of ...", use "(text items 1 through -2 of ...) as text"

-- Michelle


Michelle
Well you're right, I never consider that possibility because I think that in not a good idea to use a period into the name of a file, but that doesn’t means that you can’t, so your approach is good enough to solve that point. Thanks

Carlos Ysunza B.
Director
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Comunicación Visual • Automatización
Tel. (52)55 5256-0336
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