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
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