On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:42:16 +1100, Shane Stanley
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> 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/>

I see. My mistake - and very interesting. I don't think I've ever seen
"text #" used in a "through" range with a "text item #" of a string.
It didn't occur to me to mix and match that way - another area where
AppleScript allows quite a bit of flexibility.

Dan Shockley