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Re: duplicate command


  • Subject: Re: duplicate command
  • From: "koenig.yvan" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:04:33 +0200


Le 12/04/2013 à 18:31, Simon Topliss <email@hidden> a écrit :

On 12 Apr 2013, at 16:31, koenig.yvan <email@hidden> wrote:

(path to desktop as text) & "get archives AppleScript - stripped.scpt"
set sourcePath to quoted form of POSIX path of result
"Macintosh HD:"
set targetPath to quoted form of POSIX path of result

Here's a tip for those playing along at home…

Never, ever write code like the above. Always be explicit in your variable declarations. The correct way to write this is:

set sourcePath to quoted form of POSIX path of  ((path to desktop as text) & "get archives AppleScript - stripped.scpt")
set targetPath to "/"

Yvan's code is a bug waiting to happen. 

May you explain better ?

result is an official property :

result

When a statement is executed, AppleScript stores the resulting value, if any, in the predefined property result. The value remains there until another statement is executed that generates a value. Until a statement that yields a result is executed, the value of result is undefined. You can examine the result in Script Editor by looking in the Result pane of the script window. 

Of course, I use its contents before any other instruction.

I do that for years and never got any problem related with this practice.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 12 avril 2013 19:04:04


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