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Re: Filemaker adds a pound
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Shane Stanley <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:00:45 +1100
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On 30/03/2013, at 2:11 AM, 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.

There's only a list involved if the first item is not a string, and if that's the case you're better off coercing just that item first. It's more efficient, and it avoids precisely the problem you are seeing.

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

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