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Re: APPLESCRIPT'S text item delimiters [was Re: POSIX path]
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On 21/1/11 3:48 PM, "Daniel A. Shockley" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Note also that one of the previous posters left off the "as string"
> (or "as text"), which would result in a list of the parsed strings -
> not what you want here.

Well that would be me, but perhaps you should look at what I posted a bit
more closely:

 set bareName to text 1 through text item -2 of theName

That doesn't result in a list -- and it doesn't needlessly make a list and
then coerce it to a string.

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Shane Stanley <[log in to unmask]>
'AppleScriptObjC Explored' <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>

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