Problem saving files

[J. Landman Gay]

Peter Brigham MD wrote:
> On Jul 6, 2010, at 10:50 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 
>> put ".ext" into tExtension -- use yours
>> set the itemDelimiter to "."
>> if last item of tFileName <> tExtension
>> then put tExension after tFilename
> 
> A minor correction: the last item of tFileName in this snippet will be 
> something like "ext" -- not ".ext". So you should do something like the 
> following:
> 
> put "ext" into tExtension -- use yours
> -- note the absence of the dot
> set the itemDelimiter to "."
> if the number of items of tFileName = 1 then
>    -- no extension provided by user
>    put "." & tExtension after tFilename
> else -- extension provided
>    if item -1 of tFileName <> tExtension then
>       -- wrong extension
>       put tExtension into item -1 of tFilename
>    end if
> end if

Oops. You're absolutely correct. Wasn't thinking.

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