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On the other hand

property testList : characters of "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" -- a list of characters

-- test 1

set n to (-10 as integer)

items n thru 26 of testList --> {"q", "r", "s", "t", "u", "v", "w", "x", "y", "z"}

-- test 2

set n to (10 as integer)

items n thru 26 of testList --> {"j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "q", "r", "s", "t", "u", "v", "w", "x", "y", "z"}

Mel Charters

On Dec 6, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:

This is not just a problem with text. It is a more general problem with lists.
A small change to the original script yields this ...

property testList : characters of "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" -- a list of characters

-- test 1

set n to (-10 as integer)
items 1 thru n of testList --> {"a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "q"}

-- test 2

(10 as integer)
items 1 thru -(the result) of testList --> {"a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "q"}

-- test 3

(-10 as integer)
items 1 thru (get the result) of testList --> {"a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "q"}

-- test 4

(-10 as integer)
items 1 thru (the result) of testList --> Can’t get 1 {"a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "q", "r", "s", "t", "u", "v", "w", "x", "y", "z"} thru -10 of item.

It has exactly the same problem.

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	>Re: text 1 thru the result (From: Mel Charters <email@hidden>)