Re: List filtering
Re: List filtering
- Subject: Re: List filtering
- From: Joe <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 23:31:19 -0700
At 10:51 PM -0500 9/1/10, Alex Zavatone wrote:
>I've got a list of file aliases and I can do this just fine:
>
>set myList to (every text item of myFiles) as list
>
>But I'm trying to see if I can filter the text items as I get them like this:
>
>set myList to (every text item of myFiles whose text ends with "png") as list
>
>Of course that throws an error. I've been working at this for a few hours. Does anyone know if I can do this in one line?
You could filter as you build an alias list.
Something like this which has several filters:
tell application "Finder" to set filList to (every file in the entire contents of thisItem whose file type is "osas" or creator type is in {"aplt", "dplt"} or name ends with "scpt") as alias list
Joe
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