How to remove or replace text from within AppleScript text

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How to remove or replace text from within AppleScript text

I know that there are ways to convert text to file names, but what I want to do is a little different.

set thetextwithending to "thistext.end" as text

if thetextwithending ends with ".end" then
setthetextwithoutending to (thetextwithending - ".end" from the ending)
end if

I expect that it's something like this (although I know my syntax is wrong, I think my logic is correct):

set thetextwithoutending to "Nope. Didn't work." as text

if thetextwithending ends with ".end" then
theCount to (the number of characters in thetextwithending) as number
set theFixedCount to (theCount - 4) as number
set thetextwithoutending to (theFixedCount characters of thetextwithending) as text
end if

thetextwithoutending

PowerBook G4 1.67 Ghz, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Sep 22, 2010 5:15 PM

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Answer 1

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Niel

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Sep 22, 2010 5:19 PM in response to Joey Delli Gatti

Here:

set thetextwithending to "thistext.end" as text

if thetextwithending ends with ".end" then
set thetextwithoutending to items 1 thru -5 of thetextwithending as string
end if

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Answer 2

Sep 22, 2010 5:21 PM in response to Joey Delli Gatti

No need to turn the aliases into strings if you can use finder.


tell application "Finder"
 set myFile to (choose file)
 set myFileName to name of myFile
 set myFileExtention to name extension of myFile
end tell

I'm sure you can use that to do what you want no?

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Answer 3

Sep 22, 2010 5:34 PM in response to taylor.henderson

I think that both of those work for my purposes right now. I was looking for the (set thetextwithoutending to items 1 thru -5 of thetextwithending as string) type solution though because of its versatility.

Thank you, both!

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