Re: Finder's "exists" command ignores leading zero's in
Re: Finder's "exists" command ignores leading zero's in
- Subject: Re: Finder's "exists" command ignores leading zero's in
- From: "Ken G. Brown" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 13:07:24 -0600
I tried this modified form as suggested, and it seems to work correctly.
tell application "Finder"
tell file "00441.jpg" of desktop to set file_found to ((it exists) and (its name begins with "00441.jpg"))
end tell
Ken
On May 22, 2014, at 13:48, Ken G. Brown <email@hidden> wrote:
> OS X 10.9.3
>
> I have the file 00441.jpg existing on my Desktop an no other similarly named ones.
> I entered this into ScriptDebugger.
> --
> set path_to_desktop to path to desktop folder
> set my_img to path_to_desktop & “441.jpg" as string
> tell application "Finder"
> set file_found to exists my_img
> end tell
> —
>
> Yup,
> I step thru and get file_found set to true.
>
> If I look for 41.jpg i get file_found set to false.
>
> Ken G. Brown
>
>
>
> On May 22, 2014, at 13:00, email@hidden wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 13:13:53 -0500
>> From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
>> To: Applescript Users List <email@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: Finder's "exists" command ignores leading zero's in
>> filename
>> Message-ID: <email@hidden>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>>
>> On May 22, 2014, at 9:01 AM, Bert Groeneveld wrote:
>>
>>> set path_to_desktop to path to desktop folder
>>> set my_img to path_to_desktop & "2028.jpg" as string
>>> tell application "Finder"
>>> set file_found to exists my_img
>>> end tell
>>>
>>> When I change the name of the file on the desktop from "2028.jpg" into "002028.jpg" I hope to receive false as the result from above script, but the result is still true. It seems that the leading zero's are ignored. How can I fix that?
>>
>> I've been following this thread and finally just couldn't resist trying to reproduce the results.
>> I'm currently using system 10.7.5, Lion.
>> I modified the original script. Here's my script ...
>>
>> -- the file "x000y.png" exists on the desktop
>> set deskPath to (path to desktop folder) as text
>> set filePath to (deskPath & "x0000y.png") as text -- this file does NOT exist
>> tell application "Finder"
>> set fileExists to (exists filePath) as text
>> end tell
>> display dialog fileExists & return & filePath
>>
>> try
>> filePath as alias
>> on error errText number errNr
>> "Error = " & errNr & return & errText
>> display dialog the result
>> end try
>>
>>
>> It is clear from the behavior of this script that the Finder has a serious bug.
>> Experiment with line 2 by increasing the number of zeros in the file name.
>>
>> Strings behave this way:
>> "0" ≠ "00" ≠ "000" ≠ "0000" ≠ "00000"
>>
>> Integers behave this way:
>> 0 = 00 = 000 = 0000 = 00000
>>
>> The Finder is behaving as if a sub-string of zeros is equivalent to zero,
>> which is erroneous integer behavior, not correct string behavior.
>>
>> In my script, above, the Finder incorrectly thinks that:
>> "x0y" = "x00y" = "x000y" = "x0000y" = "x00000y"
>>
>> Perhaps I should post this message as a bug report,
>> but I would first like to know if anyone can reproduce this behavior in 10.8.x and 10.9.x.
>
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