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Re: Parsing out words in email subject
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Re: Parsing out words in email subject


  • Subject: Re: Parsing out words in email subject
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:28:00 -0700

On Jan 29, 2010, at 3:24 AM, Nigel Garvey wrote:

> With all the posts in this thread so far, I'm puzzled that no-one's
> offered the official syntax for this sort of thing, which doesn't
> involve the coercion of an intermediate list.
>
> To return all the text from the second "word" of a string (assuming
> there are more than one) to the last character:
>
>  set allButFirst to text from word 2 to -1 of theSubject

Bravo!  That's our Nigel.  He can not only see the trees, but also sees the forest.

-- Michelle

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"Better Plan B than plan d & c."


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