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Re: Simple newbie question
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Re: Simple newbie question


  • Subject: Re: Simple newbie question
  • From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:02:29 +0200

It's difficult to make a short code which would handle file names both with and without extensions.

My shortest code (which works only if there is an extension, like Michelle's proposition) is:

tell (info for MyFile) to return text 1 thru -(2 + (name extension's length)) of its name

This is probably much faster than sending commands to Finder.

Emmanuel

On Jun 18, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:

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

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