Getting the type code of a file under OSX

[Richard Gaskin]

Alex Tweedly wrote:
> You could try (I did !!) using the trick I saw from Richard a couple of 
> weeks ago, using a complex filter expression to ensure the right number 
> of items - e.g.
>   filter ... pFileName & ",*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*"  but that also fails the 
> "a,11" case as above.

For grabbing just one line I often just include boundaries around the 
text with lineOffset:

   put lineoffset(cr& tMyFileame&"," , cr& tFileList)

Because the file names are URL encoded commas become %2C, so I don't 
believe there's a risk of getting commas in the name confused with 
delimiters.

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