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Claudio Braga <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:41:55 +0100
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Il giorno 20/gen/2011, alle ore 15.33, Mark J. Reed ha scritto:

> 
> set text item delimiters to "."
> set bareName to text items 1 through -2 of theName as text
> 
> The only flaw I see in this approach is that it doesn't elevate the
> idea of "name extension" into an abstraction that sits above the idea
> of "part of a string after a period".  And I'm not sure how valuable
> such an abstraction is anyway.
> 

I guess this will not work for a file with multiple "." in the name. I'll stick with the previous solution

Thank you


Regards


Claudio Braga
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