getting File Name

[Scott Rossi]

Hi John:

Does the following also do what you want?


answer file "Select a file:"
set itemDel to "/"
ask "File Name" with last item of it



Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 8/10/14 10:00 PM, "JB" <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:

>Here is a handler I wrote that will return the file name.
>
>on mouseUp
>  answer files "Select the file you want the Name of:"
>   put the longFilePath of line 1 of it into filePath
>   set the itemDelimiter to tab
>   put number of chars in filePath into n
>   repeat for n times
>      if char n of filePath = ":" then put "/" before fileName
>      else put char n of filePath before fileName
>      if char n - 1 of filePath = "/" then exit repeat
>      put n - 1 into n
>   end repeat
>   ask "File Name" with fileName
>end mouseUp
>
>John Balgenorth
>
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