On May 21, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Mark Lively wrote: > Yes, because you are stringing together text items. Normally the > text item delimiters are {""} so when you concatenate two strings > together there is nothing between them. Aha. I always thought the default delimiter was " " Apparently somewhere in the past month I forgot to do the standard "set oldDelim to Applescript's text item delimiters," etc. Your other examples are handy. Thanks. Bill Steele [log in to unmask]