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Re: coerce record to string - does this work in other System languages?
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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: "Nigel Garvey" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:12:53 +0000

Skeeve wrote on Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:48:21 +0100:

>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

This should work (for records with at least one item) on any system:

  display dialog to_String(info for POSIX file "/tmp")

  on to_String(the_record)
    try
      the_record as string
    on error the_record
      set astid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
      set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "{"
      set the_record to "{" & text from text item 2 to -1 of the_record
      set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "}"
      set the_record to text 1 thru text item -2 of the_record & "}"
      set AppleScript's text item delimiters to astid
    end try
    return the_record
  end to_String

As from Snow Leopard, multiple delimiters are possible:

  display dialog to_String(info for POSIX file "/tmp")

  on to_String(the_record)
    try
      the_record as string
    on error the_record
      set astid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
      set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"{", "}"}
      set the_record to "{" & text from text item 2 to text item -2 of
the_record & "}"
      set AppleScript's text item delimiters to astid
    end try
    return the_record
  end to_String

NG


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