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
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