Nope. set foo to "Hello" set bar to "World" set Fred to foo & bar --> "HelloWorld" On Mar 28, 2013, at 2:46 PM, Stan Cleveland <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Mar 28, 2013, at 7:11 AM, Bill Steele wrote: > >> Applescript just doesn't like me these days. >> >> set dPath to path to desktop as string >> set newFiepath to dPath & "foo.txt" as string >> -->"MacHD/Users/Bill/desktop/foo.txt" >> >> But now I insert this into a Filemaker script (FM11 0v4) and it produces >> >> -->"MacHD/Users/Bill/desktop/#foo.txt" >> >> Where did the pound sign come from? > > Hi Bill, > > The most likely suspect is AppleScript's text item delimiters. An aborted script run may have left them set to "#". For normal text concatenation they need to be set to "". > > Stan C. > Bill Steele [log in to unmask]