On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:42:16 +1100, Shane Stanley <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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