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Re: Filemaker adds a pound
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Mark Lively <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:20:16 +0000
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If the first item is a string then it outputs a string. Otherwise it does a list. I usually use ""&foo&bar. 



On Mar 29, 2013, at 11:11, "Bill Steele" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I'm in the habit of using "as string" because Applescript sometimes treated concatenation as the creation of a list. In a test just now it didm't seem to matter. Saves me some typing; thanks. 
> 
> On Mar 28, 2013, at 6:38 PM, Shane Stanley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> The "as string" in the third line is redundant.
> 
> 
> Bill Steele
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