On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Claudio Braga <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Il giorno 20/gen/2011, alle ore 15.33, Mark J. Reed ha scritto:
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>> 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.
>>
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> I guess this will not work for a file with multiple "." in the name. I'll stick with the previous solution

No, it will absolutely work for a file with multiple periods in the
name, which is why I did "text items 1 through -2" instead of just
"text item 1".

set text item delimiters to "."
text items 1 through -2 of  "foo.x.y"

That returns "foo.x" - the same result you get from the other
approach, since the name extension of "foo.x.y" is "y", not "x.y".




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