Getting the type code of a file under OSX

[Brian Yennie]

Quick observation... you may get unreliable results when the name of 
one file is a substring of the name of another file in the same folder. 
You might try adding a comma to the file name, or using itemOffset() 
and wholeMatches.

HTH
- Brian

> Hi Howard,
>
> You could use AppleScript but doing this with Transcript is easy and 
> fast:
>
> function CreatorAndType pFilePath
>   local tDefaultFolder,tCreatorType
>   -----
>   if the platform <> "MacOs" then return "Error: filetype not 
> supported"
>   put the defaultFolder into tDefaultFolder
>   set the itemdel to slash
>   set the defaultFolder to item 1 to -2 of pFilePath
>   put urlDecode(the detailed files) into tFiles
>   put line lineOffset(item - 1 of pFilePath,tFiles) of tFiles into 
> tFile
>   set the defaultFolder to tDefaultFolder
>   set the itemDel to comma
>   put item 11 of tFile into tCreatorType
>   if tCreatorType = empty then return "Error: could not find the 
> filetype"
>   return char 1 to 4 of item 11 of tFile & comma & char 5 to 8 of item 
> -1 of tFile
>   -- creator and type separated by a comma
> end CreatorAndType
>
> Best Regards from Paris,
>
> Eric Chatonet.
>
> Le 30 juil. 05 à 01:56, Howard Bornstein a écrit :
>
>> I wanted to check to see if I'm missing something obvious. I want to
>> be able to get the type code of a specific file under OSX. As far as
>> I've been able to find, there is only one way to get the type code--
>> with the files function. The detailed files includes the type and
>> creator codes. However, this gets the entire list of files in the
>> default folder. Unless there's something I'm missing, the sequence
>> would be something like this:
>>
>> 1) Get the full path of the file you want the type code for
>> 2) Extract the folder it's in
>> 3) Set the default folder to that folder
>> 4) Get the detailed files
>> 5) Compare the file name with item one of every line in the files
>> 6) When you find a match, extract the last item from the detailed file
>> description which is the type/creator code.
>>
>> This seems like a lot of work, just to get an attribute of a file. We
>> have the filetype property, where we can set the type of a file. Isn't
>> there a simple way to *get* the type of a file?
>
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