Getting some chars from a string?

[Phil Davis]

Hi Richmond,

Here's another way:

on mouseEnter
     put myNumber(the short name of me)
end mouseEnter

function myNumber pNOMEN
     set the itemDelimiter to "."
     return char 2 to -1 of item 1 of pNOMEN
end myNumber

Phil

On 2/9/10 11:01 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> I have a series of image names for the type:
>
> f#.png
>
> where # can be a number anywhere between 1 and 6 figures long.
>
> what I need is to extract the number from the image name.
>
> SO, starting with
>
> on mouseEnter
>   put the short name of me into NOMEN
>
> ................?

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