Apple script problems

Sarah Reichelt sarahr at genesearch.com.au
Mon Dec 15 22:14:18 EST 2003


> I am still surprised that AppleScript doesn't do the normal thing and 
> just return a comma/return (or tab/return) delimited text file instead 
> of the  curly brackets. Thank God there are not curly brackets in the 
> database.
>
Jim,

I don't have FileMaker so I can't test this, but what do you get if you 
say:
	get every record as string
in the AppleScript?

AppleScript has decided to give you a list and that may end up easiest 
to process, but try coercing it to a string and see what happens.

Cheers,
Sarah
sarahr at genesearch.com.au
http://www.troz.net/Rev/



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