Re: coerce record to string - does this work in other System languages?
Re: coerce record to string - does this work in other System languages?
- Subject: Re: coerce record to string - does this work in other System languages?
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:54:54 -0400
That won't work in English; the error has the stringification of the
record buried in the middle:
Can’t make {a:0} into type string.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Skeeve <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I wrote this little handler to coerce a record into a string. It works with
> "German" as System language. Does it work with other languages too? Who can
> test?
>
> display dialog to_String(info for POSIX file "/tmp")
>
> on to_String(the_record)
> try
> {a:0} as string
> on error cutoff
> set cutoff to 4 - (length of cutoff)
> end try
> try
> the_record as string
> on error the_record
> set the_record to text 1 thru cutoff of the_record
> end try
> return the_record -- as string
> end to_String
>
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