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Re: POSIX path
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Emmett Gray <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:18:13 -0500
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At 10:00 PM -0500 1/20/11,  Mark Lively <[log in to unmask]> wrote :

>set aString to "this.   is..a.test"
>set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."
>set outstring to text items 1 through -2 of aString as text
>--"this.   is..a."
>
>The only problem is the case where there is no period in the string.

No problem here, returns a period-shy string without error.

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