Removing text from a string

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 2:23 AM +0100 10/10/2005, Ian Leigh wrote:
>I have a list of filenames which are displayed in a list field. When 
>clicked on the name of the selected file appears in a label but I 
>don't want the extension displayed. I have looked at the docs but 
>can't see a simple way of doing it!

This will do it:

   set the itemDelimiter to "."
   put item 1 to -2 of the selectedText into field "Label"

(If you're certain the filename itself doesn't contain any periods, 
you can substitute
   put item 1 of the selectedText into field "Label"
for the second line. If you're working exclusively for Windows, you 
can make this simplifying assumption, but not for Mac OS, OS X, or 
Unix.)
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