On 21/1/11 3:48 PM, "Daniel A. Shockley" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Note also that one of the previous posters left off the "as string" > (or "as text"), which would result in a list of the parsed strings - > not what you want here. Well that would be me, but perhaps you should look at what I posted a bit more closely: set bareName to text 1 through text item -2 of theName That doesn't result in a list -- and it doesn't needlessly make a list and then coerce it to a string. -- Shane Stanley <[log in to unmask]> 'AppleScriptObjC Explored' <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>