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 16:24:58 -0400
Although it would perhaps be more useful to calculate startCut and
endCut once and persist those values, rather than doing that work anew
(and then overwriting endCut with a value tied to the specific current
record) each time.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Stockly, Ed <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Yours didn't work for me, but this modification does:
>
> HTH,
>
> ES
>
> on to_String(the_record)
> try
> {a:0} as string
> on error cutoff
> set oldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"{a:0}"}
> set startCut to length of first text item of cutoff
> set endCut to length of last text item of cutoff
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims
> end try
> try
> the_record as string
> on error the_record
> set endCut to (the (length of the_record) - endCut)
> set the_record to text startCut thru endCut of the_record
> end try
> return the_record -- as string
> end to_String
>
>
> On 3/25/10 12:48 PM, "Skeeve" 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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